Hi tim We know and we made huge progress because before we could not even reproduce it. We spent some times on it. I thought the solution found by pablo and santiago got integrated.
Stef > Guys - this really needs attention - I’ve spend hours now trying to debug > some code and most of it is in closing infinite debuggers. It makes a mockery > of our tagline - “awesome debugging”. And the extra irony is that I’m > debugging some file path stuff for exercism, to make it easier for hopefully > more people to learn Pharo. > > How can we get this fixed? > > Tim > >> On 2 Aug 2018, at 21:44, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: >> >> bump >> >>> 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 >>> >> > -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
