From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Intervention needed?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 22:01:56 +0100
Date: 2019-04-03T22:01:56+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ly1s2i6bwb.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ggk8gpFasspU1@mid.individual.net
Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
> I find, like Dmitry, that tracing and logging functions, either built
> into the program and optionally activated, or inserted ad hoc to
> understand a specific bug, are more useful. Even if the problem is not
> found in the first attempt, but needs incremental addition or
> activation of more or other logs and traces, the process is much less
> frustrating than an interactive gdb session because there is much more
> control, much less noise due to irrelevant outputs from the program
> and the debugger, and no confusion between source level and machine
> level.
Agreed; in fact, we never managed to get GDB working on our VxWorks
PowerPC hardware. I don't think we seriously tried. Logging was the
thing (including exception tracebacks; unhandled exceptions were fatal,
essential in the development environment)
My part got tested on the desktop using a Tcl-based scripted testing
tool[1], which meant that I could reproduce the scenario from the logs
taken on site/at sea, demonstrate the problem, solve it (OK, sometimes
using the debugger), demonstrate the cure, & add that script to the test
suite.
[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/scriptedtesting.coldframe.p/
(I really need to rescue this from SF & move it to Github!)
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2019-04-02 22:07 Intervention needed? Randy Brukardt
2019-04-03 7:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-03 14:31 ` Optikos
2019-04-03 14:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-03 15:29 ` Optikos
2019-04-03 16:16 ` Simon Wright
2019-04-03 17:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-03 21:12 ` Simon Wright
2019-04-04 7:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-04 5:44 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-04-04 7:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-04 7:22 ` Paul Rubin
2019-04-04 8:37 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-04-05 0:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-05 5:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-04-05 15:17 ` Optikos
2019-04-06 1:38 ` Jere
2019-04-06 4:25 ` alby.gamper
2019-04-06 6:49 ` Jere
2019-04-06 8:24 ` alby.gamper
2019-04-04 12:28 ` Simon Wright
2019-04-04 16:17 ` Optikos
2019-04-03 15:07 ` Lucretia
2019-04-03 16:15 ` Simon Wright
2019-04-03 17:23 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-04-03 17:48 ` Bill Findlay
2019-04-03 21:01 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2019-04-03 18:58 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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2019-03-25 19:14 Randy Brukardt
2019-03-25 20:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-28 0:48 ` Jere
2019-03-08 16:43 Olivier Henley
2019-03-08 16:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-08 17:31 ` gautier_niouzes
2019-03-11 14:31 ` antispam
2019-03-11 15:07 ` gautier_niouzes
2019-03-11 17:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-11 15:34 ` Lucretia
2019-03-11 17:30 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-11 17:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-11 18:14 ` AdaMagica
2019-03-11 19:52 ` Olivier Henley
2019-03-11 20:04 ` Lucretia
2019-03-11 22:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-03-12 2:04 ` Lucretia
2019-03-12 13:17 ` Olivier Henley
2019-03-12 16:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-03-12 16:56 ` Lucretia
2019-03-12 17:20 ` Lucretia
2019-03-12 18:14 ` Olivier Henley
2019-03-12 19:21 ` Lucretia
2019-03-12 21:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-13 10:50 ` Jere
2019-03-17 12:52 ` Optikos
2019-03-17 16:37 ` Luke A. Guest
2019-03-17 16:48 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-20 0:49 ` Optikos
2019-03-20 1:04 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-20 1:19 ` Optikos
2019-03-18 23:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-19 2:18 ` Optikos
2019-03-19 8:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-19 9:53 ` Optikos
2019-03-19 22:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-19 22:26 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-20 1:08 ` Jere
2019-03-22 2:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-23 15:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-03-23 21:38 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-19 22:36 ` Optikos
2019-03-19 23:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-20 1:28 ` Jere
2019-03-20 8:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-22 2:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-22 11:10 ` Jere
2019-03-23 8:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-23 21:32 ` Jere
2019-03-20 7:59 ` Optikos
2019-03-22 2:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-22 8:38 ` Optikos
2019-03-22 10:54 ` Jere
2019-03-23 7:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-23 13:59 ` Jere
2019-03-23 21:19 ` Jere
2019-03-23 21:29 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-26 8:09 ` Optikos
2019-03-20 1:20 ` Jere
2019-03-22 2:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-22 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-22 22:23 ` Optikos
2019-03-27 19:20 ` G. B.
2019-03-27 21:02 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-28 7:01 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-28 7:17 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-28 8:39 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-30 4:31 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-30 22:14 ` Robert A Duff
2019-03-30 22:55 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-28 9:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-28 20:48 ` G. B.
2019-03-29 5:13 ` Bojan Bozovic
2019-03-29 8:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-29 6:57 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-29 7:13 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-29 8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-01 15:13 ` Optikos
2019-04-01 16:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-01 21:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-02 8:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-02 15:53 ` Anh Vo
2019-03-19 22:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-19 22:22 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-19 23:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-19 9:37 ` Optikos
2019-03-19 22:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-29 17:56 ` Florian Weimer
2019-03-29 22:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-29 22:35 ` Florian Weimer
2019-04-01 21:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-29 17:41 ` Florian Weimer
2019-03-29 22:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-29 22:43 ` Florian Weimer
2019-04-01 21:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-01 22:14 ` Simon Wright
2019-04-02 21:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-04 15:07 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-12 21:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-13 9:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-13 11:08 ` Jere
2019-03-13 11:11 ` Jere
2019-03-13 11:59 ` Jere
2019-03-13 13:44 ` Olivier Henley
2019-03-13 15:56 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-13 16:25 ` Olivier Henley
2019-03-14 0:40 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-13 16:27 ` Olivier Henley
2019-03-14 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-16 21:30 ` Olivier Henley
2019-03-29 17:38 ` Florian Weimer
2019-03-13 13:23 ` Olivier Henley
2019-03-22 11:10 ` Lucretia
2019-03-22 14:09 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-03-22 16:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-03-22 17:29 ` Paul Rubin
2019-03-22 22:36 ` Optikos
2019-04-01 7:28 ` gautier_niouzes
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