[chirp_devel] Bug 937: FT-857D crashes due to problematic channel

[IZ3GME Marco]

Hi Robert!
Can you please confirm that creating a short memory label on the radio 
itself fires up the bug?
Anyway padding to 5 chars looks safe, I'm going to send a patch in minutes.

FYI on my early FT857 I have many memories labels of 2,3 and 4 
characters and I never had a problem, this issue must be limited to only 
some production batches.

Thank you!!!

73 de IZ3GME Marco

On 25/06/2013 21:18, Robert Terzi wrote:
> Ok, I believe I've found the answer and I believe is is a (latent) bug in the
> radio itself. A memory label of 4 characters or less will cause the radio to
> crash when accessing that memory.  This is on a FT-857D, manufactured in 2012.
>
> The default label the radio creates is 6 characters long CH-NNN, so there is
> probably never a case where it is possible to create a label on the radio with
> 0xFF's starting at a position less than the 7th character.
>
> Most likely a work around should be added to Chirp to space pad labels to a
> minimum of 5 or 6 characters.
>
> --Rob
>
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