[erlang-bugs] Unexpected badarg from io:format

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2007-02-22 11:16, Denis Bilenko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've run into a problem with io:format, it exits with these arguments:
> 
> (emacs@REDACTED)190> io:format("~w~p", ["xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", <<1>>]).
> ** exited: {badarg,[{io,format,
>                         [<0.27.0>,"~w~p",["xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",<<1>>]]},
>                     {erl_eval,do_apply,5},

not reproducible. i get:

io:format("~w~p", ["xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", <<1>>]).
[120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120,120]<<1>>ok

Erlang (ASYNC_THREADS,HIPE) (BEAM) emulator version 5.5.3
SunOS ws67042 5.8 Generic_117350-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500


bengt
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