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Bug 10588 - Infinite loop with <math><mi>EOF
Summary: Infinite loop with <math><mi>EOF
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P1 critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-track...
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: 10621 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-09-09 09:21 UTC by Henri Sivonen
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:48 UTC (History)
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Description Henri Sivonen 2010-09-09 09:21:46 UTC 
In the <math><mi>EOF case, the EOF token keeps getting reprocessed in an infinite loop.

I suggest changing EOF handling in "in foreign content" to say:
Parse error. Stop parsing.
Comment 1 Henri Sivonen 2010-09-13 09:34:05 UTC 
*** Bug 10621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-26 03:07:58 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: This seems to have been fixed already.