Bug in Arduino IDE 1.0

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Here's a villain bug i tracked down:

Whenever i have string in my sketch which has three exclamation signs in a string (eg: "!!!"), my sketch will make the Mega2560 timeout when uploading ("huh?..bootloader>" hex code message followed after multiple retries by avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout ).
Using Windows 2008 R2 Server (think Win7 64 will do the same), Arduino IDE 1.0 & Arduino Mega2560 compatible.

Here's a sample sketch to reproduce the error:

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop()
{
  Serial.println("!!!");
}

Hopefully this will help.

2

known issue, see - http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,46966.0.html -

3

About the only time* you should ever have three of the same punctuation mark consecutively is for ellipsis...
Do you have some obscure text protocol that requires consecutive exclamation marks?

*except maybe opening or closing parentheses.

4

Thanks for the replies.

I do not have any special text requirements. I'm actually an arduino beginner who gut stuck by this so i hunted down the trouble.
My english knowledge didn't let me find any other case like the one stated (i'm French).

Is there any "known issues" page i can peek into ?
Thanks.

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many are only mentioned on the forum,

some are posted on - Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting. -

6

Is there any "known issues" page i can peek into ?

many are only mentioned on the forum,

All it takes to submit an "official" issue is a free google code account. (Of course the other side of that issue is that not all the "issues" are more valid than random forum comments.)

I try to submit official issues for particularly obscure and "definitely a bug" problems that I see in the forums, because I'm a big fan of official bug tracking systems, but I don't read everything.

(This particular bug has been discussed in the forums before, as well. But I don't think that the forum "search" function likes search terms consisting entirely of punctuation!)

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Anyway, just beginning arduino stuff... Many thanks.