[Cuis] OMeta 2

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Phil,

I'm not that of an expert wrt debugger internals, but will take a look 
at this tomorrow (please tell if you solve it!).

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On 5/24/2015 7:07 AM, Phil (list) wrote:
> Anyone have experience debugging the debugger? If so, I could use some
> pointers...
>
> In my latest repo commit I've included two variants of a rule (you'll
> should be able to replicate if you have the examples loaded.)  One that
> works:
>
> OMeta2LambdaCalculusParserExample debugMatchAll: 'x and y;x*y' with:
> #root.
>
> And one that doesn't:
>
> OMeta2LambdaCalculusParserExample debugMatchAll: 'x and y;x*y' with:
> #rootHang.
>
> The second command is supposed to crash and bring up the debugger but
> appears to get caught in an infinite loop after calling 'self halt' in
> its error handling code.  You can break out of it via alt|cmd-. and get
> to the debugger but the backtrace is all about the problems the
> debugger is having, not the original halt. I have every confidence that
> this is the result of OMeta failing to do something that is needed for
> the debugger to function properly.  The problem I'm having is figuring
> out how to debug the debugger.  When I break out of the loop I see the
> nil object in the context list, but what's that object supposed to be
> and where would it be set / set up?  Any ideas/pointers to docs or
> relevant email discussions on debugging crashes in the debugger itself?
>
> (Note: I had this issue even running OMeta under Squeak 3.10 so I
> suspect there was something that got changed since 3.8/3.9 that broke
> this functionality as I've never seen it working properly...)
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
> On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 18:54 -0400, Phil (list) wrote:
>> ... is alive!  Several caveats so please check out the README for the
>> latest updates as things progress:
>> https://github.com/pbella/Cuis-Ports#ometa-2
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phil
>
>
>
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