In-Game: [YYC] collision_rectangle() causes silent crash in early 2024.800 runtimes

[tabularelf]

Description

While testing one of my games, I noticed that collision_rectangle_list was causing a silent crash. Replicated the issue with what I believe might be the case.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Run project on YYC
2. See crash in output

Which version of GameMaker are you reporting this issue for?

IDE v2024.800.0.602 Runtime v2024.800.0.624

Which operating system(s) are you seeing the problem on?

Windows 10.0.19045.0

Which platform(s) are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

32557554-d163-488b-885d-b4e4c8ce0427

[jackerley]

Fixed, same issue as #6767

[alicemoretti]

Verified fixed on IDE v2024.800.0.605 Runtime v2024.800.0.628.

Thank you.

[danieltjewett]

I am still getting silent crashes in both YYC and VM with collision_rectangle_list on runtime v2024.8.1.218 and v2024.11.0.226:

var num = selectMultiple || !hasNextTargetAvailable ?
		collision_rectangle_list(global.camera.view_left, global.camera.view_top, global.camera.view_left + global.camera.view_width, global.camera.view_top + global.camera.view_height, obj_Interactable, false, true, _tempList1, true)
		: 0;

Edit: This is 100% reproducible in our production demo on Steam (currently on runtime v2024.8.1.218). Steps are a little bit of a slog, but what I did to get the screenshot above:

1. After booting into the game, mash the A button 20 times to skip the tutorial.
2. Run to the Remembrance Ceremony. Mash B to skip the dialog.
3. Try to beat the Violets and fail.
4. Mash B to get through the Hospital scene.
5. I don't think this is required, but I talk to the hospital lady after the scene.
6. After this, I press Start to open Inventory, B to bring up Main Menu, and then Quit to Title Screen. Game Crashes.

[KormexGit]

@danieltjewett Would probably be good to make a new report, comments on closed reports don't usually get seen in my experience

[danieltjewett]

@KormexGit Are you experiencing this issue by chance? I'll most likely make an issue later tonight or tomorrow. We're working out the kinks of upgrading to 2024.11 after being on 2024.2 for several months.

[KormexGit]

@danieltjewett A simple test of just calling collision_rectangle_list does not crash for me, so if I were to guess there's some additional condition required that your project has happening

[danieltjewett]

@KormexGit Agreed. We're using collision_rectangle_list all over the place. That is why I haven't created an issue yet. That specific usage is on a clean up / game restart event, so maybe it has something to do with that? I still need to investigate.

I have found that it is easier for the team to have easily reproducible bugs than what I posted above. My posting above is for searching in Github, if someone else ever were to encounter the issue. I will link the new issue (once I find more) here as well.

[danieltjewett]

Upon further investigation, this code of ours shouldn't even be running, because we have a flag set that should gate this on game end. However, this gate is [obviously] not working correctly. My assumption is that global.camera or _tempList1 has been destroyed, and thus why the crash is happening. I'd like to see this throw an error, and not a silent crash. However, the complexity of this is not worth trying to figure out, and may not even be related to the issue posed in the title.