[Gambas-user] Debugging Gambas (again)

[Jussi Lahtinen]

I gave you kinda lazy answer, sorry but I'm tired.
Segfault comes from operating system and "the clean errors" comes from
Gambas interpreter. I hope that will clear the confusion after you do some
reading.


Jussi

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 3:31 AM Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Understanding why sig11 is bug in Gambas requires some understanding of
> how modern operating systems and how interpreted languages like Gambas work.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_protection
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytecode
>
> Only way this could not be bug in Gambas (it may very well be *also* bug
> in the OPs code), is that the OP is calling external function written in
> some other language and the error comes from there, but by quick look it
> doesn't look like that.
>
>
> Jussi
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 2:27 AM Cedron Dawg <cedron at exede.net> wrote:
>
>> Ideally that is true.  You shouldn't be able to throw anything at the
>> underlying code and have it seg fault.  Nor am I ruling out some sort of
>> Gambas bug in this situation.  But what is the difference between a seg
>> fault and some other sort of cleaner error exit in this case?  (Assuming
>> the OP's source code is flawed)
>>
>> The fact that it happens as "after a certain number of entries the
>> program fails" indicates either a capacity issue or a bad case scenario.
>> If it failed the first time, then go looking for an obvious Gambas bug.
>>
>> My bet is that the problem ends up being in the OP's code, and maybe he's
>> found a place where Gambas needs to be better fool-proofed.  However,
>> adding parameter validation testing to every function call is a
>> questionable endeavor.
>>
>> Just 2 cents.  I am curious about how this turns out.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jussi Lahtinen" <jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com>
>> To: "user" <user at lists.gambas-basic.org>
>> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 6:46:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Debugging Gambas (again)
>>
>> It is Gambas problem when there is segmentation fault from native Gambas
>> code.
>>
>>
>> Jussi
>>
>>
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