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Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#41
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And here's a link to a document where you can see the bug in action. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KKZHZpKRFRBddEvjFc-au2LM...

It's interesting seeing how many people interact with that link. +40 users in a matter of minutes, and some instant spam suggestions too. Kind of funny.

Thank you for the repro case!

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#42

When I come across posts like these, I just wonder, "How in the world did the user discover this in the first place?!" Let's place bets: A) The user just let autocomplete "take it away" (not sure about this one since they were able to access the console) B) Pen Testing? C) Error copy and pasting? D) Actual dialog in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic love story where a robot discovers the Turing test and attempts to set itsel…

E) Children playing on the tablet/computer.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#46

Sort of related, last night I managed to make Clang crash by feeding it a certain C++ program: https://i.imgur.com/r5MC2aK.png It was very surprising that there was a way to get Clang to segfault. Should I report it somewhere? The code is basically doing a recursive template expansion with some C++20 concept constraints. So it's not quite as simple as "And. And...", but it's similar in that certain input text causes…

Definitely report it, it'll be fun to see what happens. https://llvm.org/docs/HowToSubmitABug.html

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#48
I’m willing to bet it’s related to this. Google docs is trying to guess something for autocomplete, similar to their gmail feature to complete your sentences.

Which means, on a privacy standpoint, whatever you’re writing and guessing, they are absolutely processing something.

We the user are the product, apparently. This is mildly creepy to me because, I do vent on google docs sometimes. And assume only I can read it..

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#49

Sort of related, last night I managed to make Clang crash by feeding it a certain C++ program: https://i.imgur.com/r5MC2aK.png It was very surprising that there was a way to get Clang to segfault. Should I report it somewhere? The code is basically doing a recursive template expansion with some C++20 concept constraints. So it's not quite as simple as "And. And...", but it's similar in that certain input text causes…

> Should I report it somewhere?

Please do. You can open an issue (Bugzilla has been deprecated) on LLVM's github repo: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#50

Sort of related, last night I managed to make Clang crash by feeding it a certain C++ program: https://i.imgur.com/r5MC2aK.png It was very surprising that there was a way to get Clang to segfault. Should I report it somewhere? The code is basically doing a recursive template expansion with some C++20 concept constraints. So it's not quite as simple as "And. And...", but it's similar in that certain input text causes…

You should report it to their GitHub repro: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
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