Index: libcfa/src/parseconfig.cfa
===================================================================
--- libcfa/src/parseconfig.cfa	(revision e74ba777216b604fe98a1fb5cba0e95cb1d19ee6)
+++ libcfa/src/parseconfig.cfa	(revision 52c68912da51a15a23b7f76fd16274fc964c41e4)
@@ -86,4 +86,5 @@
 		} // for
 	} catch( Open_Failure * ex; ex->istream == &in ) {
+		^kv_pairs{};
 		exit | "Error: could not open input file \"" | config_file | "\"";
 	} // try