Re: how to crash on normally ignored exceptions

FROM : Marcel Weiher
DATE : Thu Nov 21 14:48:03 2002

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 06:17  Uhr, Vince DeMarco wrote:

> On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 03:39  PM, Brian Redman wrote:
>
>> I'd like my program to crash when it gets any sort of exception so I
>> can examine the situation in the debugger.  I haven't found a way to
>> do this.  I'm trying to isolate the code by surrounding possible
>> areas with NS_DURING/HANDLER macros and and aborting.  Then do a
>> stepwise refinement.
>>
>> At the moment I'm trying to find the cause of an
>> "NSImageCacheException" Can't cache image.  The exception occurs
>> unpredictably over the course of days of running time.  There is
>> plenty of disk space.
>>
>> Any advice regarding the NSImageCacheException or the larger "just
>> crash" question?
>>
>
> Set a breakpoint on -[NSException  raise] like this
>
> in the gdb console type this
>
> b -[NSException raise]

Would love to do that, but symbolic breakpoints (always somehwat
flaky), seem to have completely stopped working somtime with Jaguar
and/or the new dev tools.

Marcel

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