Re: engraver: continue when trying to create non-existent Grob (issue 547620043 by address@hidden)

[dak]

On 2020/02/10 21:35:30, hanwenn wrote:
> On 2020/02/10 21:31:46, dak wrote:
> >
https://codereview.appspot.com/547620043/diff/545560043/lily/engraver.cc
> > File lily/engraver.cc (right):
> > 
> >
>
https://codereview.appspot.com/547620043/diff/545560043/lily/engraver.cc#newcode126
> > lily/engraver.cc:126: grob = new Item (SCM_EOL);
> > Ugh.  How is that going to work?  I am not sure we aren't better off
with a
> hard
> > exit.  Admittedly, a failed assertion makes little sense after a
> > programming_error: this should have been a hard error in the first
place.
> > 
> > What is the use case?
> 
> Without this, you get a segfault because we take a cdr of an empty
list.

Ugh.  Ok, that's rather awful.  But don't we run into followup errors
with that make_item (SCM_EOL) ?

https://codereview.appspot.com/547620043/