On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck < marianopeck@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Mariano,
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck < marianopeck@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Stefan Marr smalltalk@stefan-marr.dewrote:
Hi:
On 30 Jan 2012, at 18:30, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
If with this piece of data, together with what I mentioned in the
first email, you have a hint, please tell me :)
Wild guess: did you invalidate all the caches that a GC usually invalidates? Thinks like primitive caches etc? Not sure what is there in Cog that could be problematic.
Thanks Stefan. I tried to do a Object flush after each graph I swap out, but still, same problem :( Thanks for the hint anyway.
While it may be difficult for Cog to get this right, since there are two copies of a jitted method, the original and the machine-code version, it would be great if Cog could have it right. So give than you have a reproducible case could you do me a huge favour and create an image that reproduces the bug? Please create the image as a doit that saves the image and then continues to runt to the crash. e.g. if the code that provokes the crash is "MyTest crash" evaluate this in a workspace, and then verify when you start-up the resulting snapshot that the image crashes:
SmalltalkImage current snapshot: true andQuit: true. MyTest crash
Hi Eliot. While trying to make the image for you, I found that if the test is run from the image start, as suggested above, the crash doesn't happen. If I do the same but from a "DoIt" in a workspace, then it happens. So I think that maybe I am becoming some contexts/compiledMethods from the executor (the DoIt) of the test...kind of shooting my own feets. But it is difficult for me to know whether a context or a method or whatever comes from the executor of the test or not....
If you think that even if you have to do a do-it from a workspace it helps, then I am happy to upload an image. Otherwise I will continue investigate what is wrong...
Just keep fiddling adding other things to run (e.g. open a browser programmatically etc). There's very little chance of debugging this from an expression in a workspace. Even if you give me the expression I will have to spend my time making it reproducible from start-up to have a chance of making sense of the crash. So please, can you keep trying?
Basically the debugging process involves analysing, working back from the crash in subsequent runs. Without a case that reproduces from start-up it is IME very difficult to make sense of.
THanks!
or
SmalltalkImage current garbageCollect; snapshot: true andQuit: true. MyTest crash
etc
Best regards Stefan
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-- best, Eliot
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