Re: .ly file partially compiles, then LP crashes

[David Kastrup]

Knut Petersen <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Guy!
>
>> Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.19.56
>> [Leloupgarou_transformationscene-pianoReduction.ly]...
>>
>> Processing `[filename].ly'
>>
>> Parsing...
>>
>> Interpreting
>> music...[8][16][24][32][40][48][56][64][72][80][88][96][104][112][120][128][136][144][152][160][168][176][184][192][200][208][216][224][232]
>>
>> Preprocessing graphical objects...
>>
>> Interpreting music...
>>
>> MIDI output to `[filename].mid'...
>>
>> Finding the ideal number of pages...
>>
>> Fitting music on 9 or 10 pages...
>>
>> Drawing systems...
>>
>> warning: compressing over-full page by 7.1 staff-spaces
>>
>> warning: page 3 has been compressed
>>
>> Exited with return code -1073741819.
>
> Try to play with set-global-staff-size.
>
> It's definitely possible to find combinations of global staff size,
> page-count, system-count, etc
> and music that are hard or impossible to solve. I remember more than
> one segfault caused
> by such an exercise. That problem is old, it is also reproducible on
> linux systems and current
> git master.

Uh, the proper way to throw in the towel is not a segfault.  If you can
find a reproducible manner of segfaulting on a hard page break problem,
that warrants fixing.

-- 
David Kastrup