[Xotcl] troubleshooting

[Gustaf Neumann]

  Hi Victor,

our typical test setup is to run the regression test with 
8.5.9, tcl 8.6b1,
and with 8.6head version (where i have applied the 
SANE-NRE-patch
from Miguel). i just double-checked, for me all three test 
settings
work fine.

does the regression work on your installation with tcl 8.6b4 
(run: make test)?
If they run fine, and you experience a crash with your 
application,
the following works probably best:

Strategy a: try to isolate and pinpoint the problem from the 
tcl layer
    by simplifying your script. if the problem can be 
reproduced with
    a few lines of code, send it to me.

Strategy b: mostly for c-literate developers: use gdb.

   - compile tcl and nsf with -g enabled (e.g. add it to
     the compile flags in the Makefile and recompile with
     "make clean" and "make")

   - start the tcl shell under gdb, like e.g.
        gdb /usr/local/src/tcl8.5.9/unix/tclsh

   - start your application from gdb using
        run ..../yourapp.tcl

   - when it crashes, type in
        where
     an you will get the backtrace.
     maybe what you see makes sense to you.
     if not, send it to me, i'll try me best on it.

all the best
-gustaf

On 14.10.10 00:33, Victor Mayevski wrote:
> I have just tried my application on latest TCL 8.6b4 and it crashes (Segmentation fault). The same application works just fine in TCL 8.5.9. Any idea how I can troubleshoot it? Tools, techniques etc?
>
> Thank you
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