This one is easy to reproduce ;-)  It happens in both v3.7 and 3.62.

Leaving off the final parenthesis on the #write line below causes a hard crash,
rather than just a fatal error. The latter would be nicer behavior, IMHO. (Of
course, I should pay closer attention to my syntax, too!)

Would it be helpful if I sent a 'crash dump'? (I see that v3.7 can do this for
me automatically.)

[32-bit Windows XP on a 64-bit AMD single-core machine, with 32-bit Pov-Ray
sse2]
------------
#version 3.7

global_settings {
assumed_gamma 1.0
}

#declare R = seed(52);

#fopen XYZ "test_file.txt" write
#write(XYZ,rand(R)) // remove the final parenthesis to cause a hard crash
#fclose XYZ

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In case this is helpful:

I just noticed that a different 'missing parenthesis example' does NOT cause a
crash, just a fatal error (as expected). It uses str()

#write(XYZ,str(500 + rand(R),0,8) // missing the final parenthesis

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Am 18.03.2014 08:37, schrieb Kenneth:
> This one is easy to reproduce ;-)  It happens in both v3.7 and 3.62.
>
> Leaving off the final parenthesis on the #write line below causes a hard crash,
> rather than just a fatal error. The latter would be nicer behavior, IMHO. (Of
> course, I should pay closer attention to my syntax, too!)
>
> Would it be helpful if I sent a 'crash dump'? (I see that v3.7 can do this for
> me automatically.)
>
> [32-bit Windows XP on a 64-bit AMD single-core machine, with 32-bit Pov-Ray
> sse2]
> ------------
> #version 3.7
>
> global_settings {
> assumed_gamma 1.0
> }
>
> #declare R = seed(52);
>
> #fopen XYZ "test_file.txt" write
> #write(XYZ,rand(R)) // remove the final parenthesis to cause a hard crash
> #fclose XYZ

probably related to http://bugs.povray.org/task/259

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