Re: Strange Windows crash

[Phil Holmes]

"ChrisYate" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> > I'm not top posting.
> >
> > I'm having a strange problem with the latest LilyPond in Frescobaldi
> > crashing with a nonsense return code (-1073741819). Unfortunately it only
> > happens on a rather large file and I haven't been able to produce a tiny
> > example. Is there any way I can get more data on this?
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> "Me too!". This is really a annoying bug because it apparently pops up for
> me only when a source file becomes a certain size. It's inconvenient for 
> me
> not to work in Windows, partly because I like to use the IDE 
> 'Frescobaldi'.
>
> I assume given the lack of further discussion here you weren't able to 
> find
> a tiny example? I raised what I think is this same issue some time back, 
> and
> had difficulty getting a dev to reproduce the problem -- apparently many 
> of
> them run *nix systems rather than Windows.
>
> Chris


It's _possible_ you're running out of memory.  Can you watch what's 
happening with memory in Task Manager?

I use Windows mainly, but note that the use of Frescobaldi is not a reason 
for only using Windows.  It runs on Mac and Linux as well.

--
Phil Holmes