Re: debugging strategy

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Cinkosky
Thanks, Wade, that is exactly the kind of guidance I was hoping for. I guess it is time to learn Instruments... Michael On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Wade Tregaskis wrote: Here is the situation. We have a large application that has been in the field for several years now. We are adding

Re: debugging strategy

2009-09-16 Thread Wade Tregaskis
Here is the situation. We have a large application that has been in the field for several years now. We are adding new feature for our next release, and we are testing the new builds against Snow Leopard as well as earlier versions of OS X. Under Snow Leopard, some existing functionalit

Re: debugging strategy

2009-09-16 Thread I. Savant
On Sep 16, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Michael Cinkosky wrote: Here is the situation. We have a large application that has been in the field for several years now. We are adding new feature for our next release, and we are testing the new builds against Snow Leopard as well as earlier versions of O

debugging strategy

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Cinkosky
We have a bug that we are having a hard time tracking down and I wonder if anyone has any tips to offer about techniques we might try. Here is the situation. We have a large application that has been in the field for several years now. We are adding new feature for our next release, and w

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Jens Alfke
On 9 Jul '08, at 5:32 AM, Ruotger Skupin wrote: I would rather not try to teach my users gdb... My MYUtilities library includes support for getting exception backtraces at runtime and reporting them to the user (see "ExceptionUtils.h"). http://mooseyard.com/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/MYUtil

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Phil
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Ruotger Skupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *** -[NSCFDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:count:]: attempt to insert nil > value at objects[0] (key: NSFont) > > So an exception got thrown for a pretty obvious reason, but where? Could be > anywhere, even in WebKit (wh

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Ruotger Skupin
I would rather not try to teach my users gdb... Ruotger Am 09.07.2008 um 12:31 schrieb Joan Lluch (casa): El 09/07/2008, a las 12:13, Ruotger Skupin escribió: So an exception got thrown for a pretty obvious reason, but where? Could be anywhere, even in WebKit (which we use). Is there any

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Ken Thomases
On Jul 9, 2008, at 5:13 AM, Ruotger Skupin wrote: this is more of an open discussion topic than a concrete question but hopefully someone has a good idea about this: I got a bug report of a non-crash bug I cannot reproduce and where I do not even know where to start looking. The only hint i

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Joan Lluch (casa)
El 09/07/2008, a las 12:13, Ruotger Skupin escribió: So an exception got thrown for a pretty obvious reason, but where? Could be anywhere, even in WebKit (which we use). Is there any chance to get near the culprit without a stack trace (which I don't have)? This question is more suitab

Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Ruotger Skupin
Hi, this is more of an open discussion topic than a concrete question but hopefully someone has a good idea about this: I got a bug report of a non-crash bug I cannot reproduce and where I do not even know where to start looking. The only hint is a line in the console.log: *** -[NSCFDic