Unity Issue Tracker - Calling GUI methods in Update crashes the editor

Fixed in Unity 5.3.0

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Issue ID

Regression

Calling GUI methods in Update crashes the editor

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Oct 27, 2015

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Priority: 2Necessary for shipping a final release

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Severity: 1Crash, freeze, data loss, work stops

Add the following code to the Update method of a new script:

if (GUI.Button (new Rect (20, 20, 60, 20), "Test")) {}

Attach the script to an object and press play. Unity will crash!

This is a regression introduced somewhere between Unity 5.3.0a1 and 5.3.0b1

From the log files:

========== OUTPUTING STACK TRACE ==================

0x00000001412DB657 (Unity) GUIStyle::Draw
0x00000001412DD42B (Unity) GUIStyle::Draw