[Scilab-users] scilab crash after bad line descriptor in plot

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello Philippe,

Le 23/02/2019 à 12:55, philippe a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> scilab freezes when I execute the plot command :
>
> plot(x,y,'---k')
>
> with the obviously wrong  third argument(line descriptor). After killing
> scilab process I get this message in the console :
>
> .../...
> It looks bad that a simple typo error crash scilab like this!

Definitely.

> Should I make a bug report ?This happened with scilab 6.0.1  and ubuntu 18.04 :

On Windows7 as well.

The analysis shows that the crash occurs in getLineSpec(), due to a 
strsubst() bug:
strsubst("---k","--","")  // crash

This is the bug 14501 
<http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501>, reported 34 months ago.

Regards
Samuel


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