BootX will sometimes set the stdout variable to null and then subsequently call io-emit which can eventually result in an infinite loop.
Index: forth/admin/iocontrol.fs =================================================================== --- forth/admin/iocontrol.fs (revision 1041) +++ forth/admin/iocontrol.fs (working copy) @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ ;
: io-emit ( char -- ) + stdout @ 0= if drop exit then \ make sure stdout pointer is not null io-out-char c! io-out-char 1 " write" stdout @ $call-method drop ;