Issue 2337 in lilypond: Endless Loop

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Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Defect

New issue 2337 by address@hidden: Endless Loop
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2337

Jay Anderson writes:

Compiling this score (reduced from a larger score) never terminates:
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\version "2.15.30"

\score
{
 \new Staff \relative c'
 {
   R1 |
   \stopStaff
   R1 | r2
 }
}
=================

If I'm stopping the staff I should probably be using spacer rests
instead and this problem goes away. So I finally figured that out, but
I would expect some sort of warning or error instead of an infinite
loop.

I traced this to this commit:
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$ git bisect bad
3d8f4559228bd8a4a30bb024163b64d425b76f18 is the first bad commit
commit 3d8f4559228bd8a4a30bb024163b64d425b76f18
Author: Benkő Pál <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Feb 13 18:49:17 2012 +0100

   Issue 2300: do not tinker with the position of a pitched rest
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It seems to be stuck in this loop (rest.cc, line 78):

     /*
       make sure rest is aligned to a staff line
     */
     while (!Staff_symbol_referencer::on_line (me, pos))
       ++pos;