Re: New parser and command line functions

[Rik]

On 03/15/2013 03:08 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Thanks for the info.  I think I see what the problem is now.
>
> Are you settings graphics_toolkit to fltk? 
Yup.  I use .octaverc to switch to the fltk toolkit immediately.
> Or doing something else that installs a readline event hook callback
> function?  I see the crash if I set graphics_toolkit to fltk, but not
> otherwise.
>
> Anyway, the the parser and lexer currently keep track of the local
> function scope when parsing by setting the current symbol table scope,
> which is global information.  Then if another parser is started (say for
> an eval, or parsing any other function as could happen when a callback
> function is evaluated for the fist time) the global scope info is reset.
>  If that happens while anther parser is active and in the middle of
> parsing a function, then a crash like you are seeing can happen.  Oops.
>  The fix is to store the scope used for parsing in the parser or lexer
> class.  I'll try to take care of that soon.
>
Good, finally this starts to make some sense.

--Rik