Re: how to crash on normally ignored exceptions

FROM : Vince DeMarco
DATE : Thu Nov 21 06:17:48 2002

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]


vince

> Thanks,
>
>     brian
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