Re: Careless use of Scaled leads to hard crash in V7
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- Subject: [mg97232] Re: Careless use of Scaled leads to hard crash in V7
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 01:02:03 -0500 (EST)
- References: <gp0829$l3o$1@smc.vnet.net>
I'm on WinXP / Mathematica 7.0.1. I don't get a crash but my whole system becomes extremely unresponsive, with processor load on maximum. Cheers -- Sjoerd On Mar 8, 12:52 pm, JUN <noec... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I just saw a crash in Mathematica V 7 on Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard. The > program (reproducibly) "quits unexpectedly" after doing the following: > > 1) > Evaluate > Graphics3D[{Arrowheads[Scaled[.05]], Arrow[Tube[{{0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, > 0}}, Scaled[.05]]]}] > > 2) > Use arrow keys to go back to previous input cell and try to delete the > occurrence of Scaled[.05] in Arrowheads, replacing it with .1 or some > other value. You may not even get this far, the crash sometimes > happens earlier. > > 3) > Repeat steps 1 and 2 if necessary. > > There briefly is an "Internal Self Test Error" message before the > crash wipes Mathematica off the screen. > > This is not exactly the most pleasant way of learning that Scaled > lengths can't be used inside Arrowhead. > I wonder if this crash also happens on other platforms. > > Jens