A Mathematica crash under MacOS
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- Subject: [mg66445] A Mathematica crash under MacOS
- From: Mark Normand <mnormand at foodsci.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 02:42:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: UMass Dept. of Food Science
- References: <446232C1.4030306@foodsci.umass.edu> <44623FD1.2020604@math.umass.edu>
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In using the ListWaveform and Show functions in the Miscellaneous`Audio`
standard package of Mathematica, anytime I call Show with more than one Sound
object argument Mathematica crashes with the system error shown below. This
also happens if I use the built-in Play function to generate the sound object,
so the crash doesn't depend on using the Miscellaneous`Audio` package. Also,
Show works fine when given multiple Graphics object arguments. I am running
Mathematica 5.2 under MacOS 10.4.6 on a 1.6 GHz PowerMac G5 that has 1.25 GB of
RAM and about 130 GB of free hard disk space. This crash also occurs on a
colleague's PowerMac G4 running the same version of MacOS but another colleague
tried this same code (taken right from the Help examples for
Miscellaneous`Audio`) under Windows XP and it ran without problems. It seems
to be a general problem that Mathematica 5.2 running under MacOS experiences a
crash when calling Show with multiple Sound arguments. Is this a "bug" or a
"feature"?
< Miscellaneous`Audio`
partialList =
{{1,1},{1.1,0.1},{1.2,0.9},{1.3,0.2},
{1.4,0.8},{1.5,0.3},{1.6,0.7},
{1.7,0.4},{1.8,0.6},{1.9,0.5}}
seq = Table[ListWaveform[partialList, 440 2^(x/12), 0.2], {x,0,9}]
Show[seq]
Here's the text that appears in the box after Mathematica crashes:
The application Mathematica quit unexpectedly.
2006-05-10 14:06:28 -0400
EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x06f19ff0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 __memcpy + 1120 (cpu_capabilities.h:189)
1 0x1000 + 822264
2 0x1000 + 81676
3 0x1000 + 830144
4 0x1000 + 826776
5 0x1000 + 590624
6 0x1000 + 564508
7 0x1000 + 562328
8 0x1000 + 554788
9 0x1000 + 31952
--
Mark Normand
UMass. Dept. of Food Science
mnormand at foodsci.umass.edu