[Gambas-user] Global error management routine

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 22/05/2013 10:02, Ron a écrit :
> On 22-5-2013 9:53, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Le 22/05/2013 00:04, Richard Terry a écrit :
>>> Tobias Boege wrote:
>>>> Hi Benoit,
>>>>
>>>> when programming a component in C/C++, one can use the error hook to execute
>>>> a function when the interpreter is about to abort because of an error.
>>>>
>>>> In Gambas itself, we only have the local Catch blocks to execute code in
>>>> case of error in this or any context above in the stack.
>>>>
>>>> However, there is no global error handling routine like the above error hook
>>>> available for Gambas programs. It would be handy if the program ultimately
>>>> has to tidy up some of its business before it is killed.
>>>>
>>> I'd second that, though I'm technically incapable of
>>> helping/understanding. Short of putting a catch statement in every
>>> single subroutine there seems no way in gambas to stop a program
>>> crashing when it enounters an unexpected error, which if you have others
>>> using the program for some mission-critical purpose this is nothing
>>> short of embarrassing/dangerous/annoying to the users.
>> I will think about it...
>>
>>> Though I use the latest packages for gambas3 I find the IDE crashes out
>>> unexpectedly enough (e.g several times in a few hour session) for me to
>>> have got into the habit of clicking the save button every few minutes as
>>> in recent times I've lost e.g 30 mins of code due to the ide suddenly
>>> 'disappearing'.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> richard
>> I have no crash, while I use the Gambas IDE every day. What package do
>> you use? What version? What kind of crash? Gambas error or segmentation
>> fault?... and so on.
>>
>
> I have them too sometimes. Signal 11's.
> But it seems they happen after something else failse, like failing to
> connecting to mysql for example.
> A user also reported to have Signal 11's while starting my project on a
> Raspberry Pi, thats maybe an ARM thingy.
>
> I will try to gather some more information.
>
> Regards,
> Ron_2nd.
>

If you enable core dumps on your system, and if you have compiled Gambas 
with debugging information enabled, you can run gdb on the core file to 
get the stack backtrace of the crash and send it me.

-- 
Benoît Minisini