Hi Atte, First off, I think the fact that chuck code can crash chuck is chuck's fault, not yours :) Probably the best thing to find out what is causing a crash is a debugger. Running chuck in a debugger (such as gdb, the popular GNU debugger) will generally cause it to freeze execution at the exact moment of the crash, letting you poke around the running program and investigate why the crash is occurring. Sometimes a simple backtrace from gdb is enough to determine what is causing a crash and even suggest a fix, but there is more sophisticated functionality for debugging more subtle bugs. For maximum debugging power, you may wish to compile a chuck executable with extra debug information and no compiler optimization. Setting CHUCK_DEBUG=1 in your shell and doing a clean recompile is one way to produce such an executable. (This typically causes a noticeable reduction in chuck performance though, so you might want to keep a non-debug executable around for when performance counts.) Ive heard that Valgrind is a very good alternative to GDB but I have no experience with it; that may be something to try also. In any case, please feel free to post bug reports/stack traces/bug producing code to the list or to send it to the chuck team. spencer On Dec 2, 2006, at 12:02 AM, Atte André Jensen wrote:

Hi

While playing with my setup tonight chuck crashed (seg fault) on me a couple of times, and I'm very interested in finding out why. Instead of crawling through my 18000+ lines of chuck code I'd like chuck to be a little more outspoken when it crashes. Now it just gives me the line where I call chuck from a bash startup script. I tried the verbose setting, and although I haven't made it crash yet, I don't really need all the debugging info when running, so I suspect I'm looking for something slightly different.

Is there anything I can do (a hack in the source, a switch I should try, any suggestions) to investigate a bit further?

BTW: I'm pretty sure it's my code and not chuck that's to blame, although one must never say never:-)

-- peace, love & harmony Atte

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