Re: Maybe this is another bug?

[Jasper Taylor]

I'm using the latest 'unstable' version under Ubuntu 8.04 and this bug 
does not occur -- compilation fails because of the syntax error, same as 
yours, but then it exits and goes back to the ?- prompt.
        --Jasper

Dave Sworin wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  
>
>     It seems that if I put the following (bad) code in a file and try to 
> compile it, that gprolog goes into an infinite loop.  I have only tried 
> this on Fedora Core 4.  A predicate without arguments is fine, 
> but not with empty parentheses.  This is fine with me.  However, I am an 
> old C programmer and did this by accident in a much larger file.  I'm 
> not sure this is a bug, but maybe you want to fix it.  By-the-way, the 
> problem does not occur if a predicate does not preceed it in the file.  
> For example, without the predicate mypred/1 below, the bug does not 
> occur.  Can you reproduce this problem also?
>
>  
>
> Dave
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>  
>
> mypred(ARG1) :-
>     ARG1 is 2 + 4.
>
>  
>
> test_case() :-
>     true.
>
>  
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> address@hidden infinite_loop_bug]$ gprolog
> GNU Prolog 1.3.0
> By Daniel Diaz
> Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Daniel Diaz
> | ?- ['testcase.pl'].
> compiling /home/daves/.../testcase.pl for byte code...
> /home/daves/.../testcase.pl:5:11: syntax error: expression expected
> <== USER TYPED CONTROL-C HERE BECAUSE CPU METER WAS AT 100%
> Prolog interruption (h for help) ? a
> execution aborted
> | ?-
>
>
>
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