[erlang-questions] Strange crash and hang

[David Welton]

> We're getting an odd crash that I suspect is related to one we had in
> the past, where we were getting a bad term from a C node.

This hypothesis seems to be correct.  I hacked up a compile of Erlang
to print something in bad_dist_ext, so I know it's hitting that.

Now, to figure out what's going wrong in the C++ code sending the bad
term... but that's not an Erlang problem.

I hacked up a little C code that can crash Erlang if it's allowed to
connect, to demonstrate how badly things go when Erlang gets a large
bad term:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/359#issuecomment-56383778

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David N. Welton

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