You might also find it useful to try the "Walker" which allows you to step
through Factor code:
http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-ui-walker.html
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Michael Clagett <mclag...@hotmail.com>wrote:
> Not a problem any more. WinDbg does the trick just fine. It was just
> Visual Studio.
>
> ------------------------------
> From: mclag...@hotmail.com
> To: factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:51:00 +0000
>
> Subject: Re: [Factor-talk] Any way of making sense of what's in the boot
> image?
>
>
> > > P.S. Incidentally, while I am on the subject, I find myself able to
> trace
> > > through the VM startup code in Visual Studio with no problem at all,
> until I
> > > get to the factor_vm::c_to_factor, which wraps a c-to-factor
> sub-primitive
> > > inside of a callback stub and then invokes that function. On both a
> Windows
> > > 7 platform and a Windows Server 2008 platform, my Visual Studio blows
> up
> > > when the callback address loaded into EDX is called. Anybody ever
> > > encountered this and any idea how to get around it?
> >
> > Factor code doesn't follow the C calling convention so it's unlikely
> > that a debugger will be able to walk a stack with Factor frames. In
> > recent versions of Factor you can trigger Factor's own low-level
> > debugger with ^C, which will let you backtrace and step through Factor
> > frames.
> >
> > -Joe
> >
>
> If I'm understanding this correctly, you are suggesting that if I'm in the
> Factor development environment, I can drop into Factor's own low-level
> debugger. But what do people do (you language maintainer, for example)
> when you need to debug the startup code that builds an image that needs to
> be in place for the development environment even to be launched? Am I
> correctly understanding you, that I can't use a Windows debugger to step
> through the init sequence, but don't have Factor's debugger available yet
> either? Or am I missing something?
>
> Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
>
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