On 09/08/11 22:55, William Hahne wrote:

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
 ;

Hmmm isn't this just hiding another bug which is that the stdout variable/defer is being set?

ATB,

Mark.

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