crashing the debugger

[Gunilla Arendt]

You have found a bug in Debugger, it cannot handle a guard test
"when false -> ..." and there seems to be such a guard in your code.

Debugger uses its own mechanism to load and evaluate code, in order to
enable stepwise execution, breakpoints etc. This means that Debugger is
not suitable for finding the kind of error you describe. I would
recommend you use a tool such as fprof, dbg or perhaps observer instead.

Best regards, Gunilla


david wallin wrote:
> 
> Slightly puzzled.
> 
> Tried to run a program under the debugger (because it stops
> unexplainably and intermittently with the beam process taking alot of
> CPU), and when I try to interpret the main file I get this error
> message from the debugger:
> 
> [...]
> ,105,115,116,95,116,111,95,105,110,116,101,103,101,114,47,49,44,32,83,10
> 5,122,101,115,41,32,59,10,10,9,95,32,45,62,32,117,110,100,101,102,105,11
> 0,101,100,10,10,32,32,32,32,101,110,100,46,10,10,10,37,37,37,32,45,45,45
> ,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45
> ,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45
> ,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,45,32,91,116,104,101,32,101,110,
> 100,93,10,109,0,0,0,16,217,142,202,234,188,223,186,193,177,235,28,143,55
> ,242,56,1>>}
> ** When Server state == {state,11,[],[],false,all,[<0.30.0>]}
> ** Reason for termination ==
> **
> {{badmatch,{function_clause,[{dbg_iload,guard_test,[{atom,98,false}]},
>                                  {dbg_iload,and_guard,1},
>                                  {dbg_iload,guard,1},
>                                  {dbg_iload,clause,1},
>                                  {dbg_iload,icr_clauses,1},
>                                  {dbg_iload,expr,1},
>                                  {dbg_iload,exprs,1},
>                                  {dbg_iload,clause,1}|
>                                  more]}},
>      [{dbg_iserver,handle_call,3},
>       {gen_server,handle_msg,6},
>       {proc_lib,init_p,5}]}
> 
> any help would be helpful.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> --david.

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