Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Unhandled exception from gec-compiled tests

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I am getting a message:
> 
> Unhandled exception
> 
> when trying to run the W3C XSLT test suite when compiled with gec (ise
> gives no problems).
> 
> It appears to happen as soon as the parser reaches a certain point in
> the test catalog, irrespective of ho many (even zero) XSLT
> transformations it has done.
> 
> It makes no difference whether the gc is 6.7 or 7.0, but there is no
> problem (other than eventual memory exhaustion - much later than when
> the problem occurs) if the program is compiled without the garbage collector.
> 
> There were no problems last weekend. I don't know what can have
> changed, or how to debug it.

I have no idea how to debug what is going on in the Boehm GC.
Since you are using Linux, you can perhaps try valgrind (first
with no GC and then with GC) to see if there is any memory
corruption in the C code generated by gec (or less likely, in
the Boehm GC).

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