Re: LilyPond crashes on \musicglyph #"space"

[David Kastrup]

Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:

> I just noticed that LilyPond is crashing on this:
>
> \version "2.18.0"
> {
> <> ^\markup {\musicglyph #"space"} s1*4/4
> }
>
> with 
>
> Interpreting music...
>
> Preprocessing graphical objects...terminate called after throwing an
> instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>
> what(): std::bad_alloc
>
> Exited with exit status 1.
>
> Other glyphs so far seem ok.

Can't reproduce on my system.  If it's only the space: are there some
other known glyphs without any ink?  en-space or em-space or something?
I suspect that the absence of any drawing instructions somehow triggers
a bad calculation.

-- 
David Kastrup