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

#51

Post by sillysaurusx » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:52 PM UTC

mtoner23 wrote: post #46

sillysaurusx wrote: post #31

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

Thank you for the link! Maybe that should've been obvious to me, but it really wasn't -- I had no clue where to start. The segfault just said "Please attach these files to the bug report" with no more info. Really appreciated.

In that case I'll spend some time to clean up the repro case and submit it. Thanks again.

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

#52

Post by throw7 » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

I've had emails crash gmail on my phone still to this day. Typically it's stuff like output logs. My guess is something to do with the repetitive lines, but who knows.

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

#53

Post by mshockwave » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #40

Typing "And. And. And. And. And." did not reproduce the bug, but copy/paste the "And [...]" from the title of this post did. EDIT: Ah, I had to reload the page, thank you child comments.

on my side it didn't trigger the crash right away but if you refresh the page, a popup with "Something went wrong" will show up

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

#54

Post by lopatin » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:54 PM UTC

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #40

Typing "And. And. And. And. And." did not reproduce the bug, but copy/paste the "And [...]" from the title of this post did. EDIT: Ah, I had to reload the page, thank you child comments.

Typing worked for me. You have to refresh.

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

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Post by kklisura » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:54 PM UTC

``` TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'C') at Ccf (https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/js/157553674-...) at Bcf (https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/js/157553674-...) ```

Has something to do with grammar. The document does not fail when `Show grammar suggestion` is turned off.

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

#56

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

_wldu wrote: post #28

zciwor wrote: post #15

Will 100% be pasting this into a coworker's Google Doc with a white font color.

That's probably a cyber crime in most US states. Edit: You guys have no sense of humor.

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

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Post by tus666 » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

kklisura wrote: post #55

``` TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'C') at Ccf ( https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/js/157553674-... ) at Bcf ( https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/js/157553674-... ) ``` Has something to do with grammar. The document does not fail when `Show grammar suggestion` is turned off.

Makes sense. I was thinking something to do with document compression but that sounds more likely.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

blueberrychpstx wrote: post #4

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…

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

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Post by technothrasher » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:56 PM UTC

blueberrychpstx wrote: post #4

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…

Years ago in school, maybe about 1992 or so, I managed to make xdm (X Display Manager) crash and dump me a root window by simply holding down a key until the buffer ran out. I remember wondering how anybody didn't discover this before me. Similar behavior with the university phone system (repeatedly pressing '0') eventually dropped me an outside line that I didn't have to pay for (yes, for you young folks, we used to have to pay for long distance phone calls, on phones that didn't fit in our pockets).

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

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Post by glitchc » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:57 PM UTC

blueberrychpstx wrote: post #4

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…

Option D is rather romantic. Poor robot fell in love with an NFA. He’ll never hear the end of it.