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> Am 04.07.2018 um 02:28 schrieb Martin McClure <mar...@hand2mouse.com>:
>
>> On 07/03/2018 05:02 PM, Martin McClure wrote:
>>> On 06/29/2018 07:48 AM, Guillermo Polito wrote:
>>> I know that the exception handling/debugging has been modified several
>>> times in the latest years (some refactorings, hiding contexts...), we
>>> unfortunately don't have tests for it, so I'd like some more pair of
>>> eyes on it. Ben, Martin could you take a look?
>>>
>> Hi Guille,
>> I'm just back from vacation last week, and about to go on vacation for
>> another week, but I'll see what I can see.
>> About the primitive pragmas for context-marking, I think some of those
>> were changed for the exception handling fix that Andres and I did a few
>> years back, so *could* be involved in this. I'd hate to see regression
>> in the exception handling in an attempt to fix this bug.
>>
>
> After a look at at the pull request, I'm quite sure that removing the
> prim 199 marker is the wrong thing to do. Thanks, Pablo, for restoring
> it! The start of execution of exception handlers must be marked in order
> for #findNextHandlerContext to work correctly. If these contexts are not
> marked, exceptions signaled from inside an exception handler can find
> the wrong handler. See the code and comment in #findNextHandlerContext.
>
> I'm afraid that I cannot immediately help with the debugger problem,
> since I don't know the debugger nearly as well as I do the exception
> handling code, and I'm going on vacation for a week in 20 minutes. :-)
> Perhaps when I get back I can take a look at it if it is still a problem
> by then.
>
> Regards,
> -Martin
>
