Re: Debugger bugfix

[John Swensen]

On Nov 28, 2008, at 6:14 PM, David Bateman wrote:

> John Swensen wrote:
> > I don't think this bug had anything to do with those threads.
>
> Sad, I would have liked to see that fixed :-) ..
>
> > This was much more basic.  Try the following:
> >
> > 1) Add a breakpoint to a function
> > 2) Call dbstatus
> > 3) Modify the file in which the breakpoint was set (e.g. add and  
> > empty new line)
> > 4) Call dbstatus and watch octave crash
> >
> > I think the behavior is unique to dbstatus because it was modifying  
> > the STL::map while in the middle of iterating through it, because  
> > of the out of date check on the file.
> Ok, I applied this..
>
> D.
>
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Do you have some concrete examples of where these two cases from the  
previous threads were failing, so I can start hunting this down?  I  
keep telling myself I need to work on something that forces me to get  
to understand how the code is parsed and stored, and maybe this is my  
chance to bite the bullet.

John Swensen