Re: What is a crash?

Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2026-08-16 at 15:00 -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 1:51 PM Dan Eble <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The meaning of our "Crash" label is broad, for example,
> > 
> > - segmentation fault
> > - out of memory
> > - user tired of waiting
> > - Scheme error
> > 
> > I propose narrowing the definition of "Crash" to abnormal termination by
> > the OS and relabeling issues of the latter two kinds as "Defect".
> > 
> 
> I was of the understanding we already defined "crash" as program
> termination with an OS-reported error.  So I agree with your proposal

+1 in general. Scheme errors, if it's in LilyPond's Scheme code, may
qualify as well IMO, if the input is "well-formed" (ie no wrong user
Scheme code).

If you think it's useful, also consider changing the label description.
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