Re: [Quickfix-developers] Using CallStack in Application Code

[Jon D. <jd...@wi...>]

We found the bug and it was not in the QF code. I never thought it was.

Thanks Oren.

-jd-

> Jon,
>
> You can do this.  The only thing is that I don't consider the CallStack
> code to be production stable.  So I wouldn't necessarily recommend
> putting into production to track down a seemingly random crash.  If
> your system is low volume it should be ok, but I wouldn't recommend it
> for a high volume system.  Of course if your system is unstable anyway
> it probably won't make things much worse.  Right now it is most useful
> if you have a way to duplicate the circumstances of the crash.  In this
> case using the CallStack can be extremely helpful.
>
> Mutek used to have a nice utility called BugTrapper that was perfect
> for these sorts of things, but it looks like they are going through
> some sort of marketing identity crises right now and I can't figure out
> what the hell they are selling anymore.
>
> Do you believe the crash to be occurring within QuickFIX or in your
> application code?  If you are not sure then one way help determing this
> is to simply wrap your fromApp method with a couple trace
> statements/log entries and see if you are crashing within that method.
> This is assuming your application is only responding to QF events of
> course.
>
> --oren
>
> On Nov 10, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Jon Dahl wrote:
>
>> QuickFIX Documentation:
>> http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
>> QuickFIX FAQ:
>> http://www.quickfixengine.org/wikifix/index.php?QuickFixFAQ
>> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>>
>> We have an exception occuring in one of our applications and are
>> unable to
>> track it down. I was wondering if we could use the CallStack Macro's
>> available with the QF code to help trace this down and if there are
>> any gotchas with implementing it.
>>
>> Platform is W2K
>> VS 7.0
>> QF 1.9.2
>> Client/Initiator
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> JD
>>
>>
>>
>>
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