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LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug


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LocoDelAssembly 30 Aug 2009, 17:33
Compiling the following code twice (re-opening the source first), will produce a stack overflow situation (not stack buffer overflow):
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format binary as 'asm' ; Self destructible source :D

repeat 1000000
  ; db "(" ; This will make FASMW crash
  db "-" ; This crash FASMW and command line fasm
end repeat    


[edit]Command line version also silently crash when "-" is used. I've changed the code to test for that and commented the "(" test.[/edit]


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revolution
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revolution 30 Aug 2009, 17:45
fasm (command line version) is fine with that above code (I get 'error: out of stack space.')

At 100000000 I only get 'error: out of memory.'

At 1000 I get 'error: illegal instruction'
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LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug


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LocoDelAssembly 30 Aug 2009, 18:29
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fasm (command line version) is fine with that above code (I get 'error: out of stack space.')
Yep, I almost posted this on Compilers Internals but after verifying this I posted here. Smile

BTW, that is just minimal example, but actually the same will happen if a very long chain of "(" or "-" is found in any expression.
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Borsuc 01 Sep 2009, 18:30
Is this really a bug, or simply because of too deep recursion? Confused
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 01 Sep 2009, 18:34
It is a bug, because fasm should display "out of stack space" error in all cases.
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