debugger bug?

[Raimo Niskanen]

Yes, it is a known issue.

We did not have the time to fix the debugger to handle 
try-of-catch-after-end. It will be fixed in R10B-1 or -2.



serge@REDACTED (Serge Aleynikov) writes:

> I am not sure if this is a known issue, but the debugger application
> in v5.4 R10B-0 release doesn't seem to understand the new
> try/catch/after clause.  If you start the debugger, and try to
> interpret attached "parse.erl" file it fails with an error, yet,
> "parse_ok.erl" is being interpreted normally:
> 
> ~/tmp>erl
> Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4 [source] [hipe]
> 
> Eshell V5.4  (abort with ^G)
> 1> os:type().
> {unix,linux}
> 2> c(parse, [debug_info]).
> {ok,parse}
> 3> debugger:start().
> {ok,<0.39.0>}
> {'try',7,
>         [{call,8,{atom,8,process},[{var,8,'F'}]}],
>         [],
>         [],
>  [{call,10,{remote,10,{atom,10,file},{atom,10,close}},[{var,10,'F'}]}]}
> 4>
> =ERROR REPORT==== 20-Oct-2004::10:31:23 ===
> ** Generic server dbg_iserver terminating
> ** Last message in was {load,parse,
>                               "/home/serge/tmp/parse.erl",
>                               <<131,104,5,100,...>>}
> ** When Server state == {state,21,[],[],false,all,[<0.39.0>]}
> ** Reason for termination ==
> ** {{badmatch,{dbg_iload,{unknown_expr,
>                               {'try',7,
>  [{call,8,{atom,8,process},[{var,8,'F'}]}],
>                                      [],
>                                      [],
>                                      [{call,
>                                           10,
>                                           {remote,
>                                               10,
>                                               {atom,10,file},
>                                               {atom,10,close}},
>                                           [{var,10,'F'}]}]}}}},
>      [{dbg_iserver,handle_call,3},
>       {gen_server,handle_msg,6},
>       {proc_lib,init_p,5}]}
> 
> 4> c(parse_ok, [debug_info]).
> {ok,parse_ok}
> 5>
> 
> ---
> Regards,
> 
> Serge
> -module(parse).
> 
> -export([parse/1]).
> 
> parse(FileName) ->
>   {ok, F} = file:open(FileName, [read]),
>   try
>     process(F)
>   after
>     file:close(F)
>   end.
> 
> process(F) ->
>   process(F, io:get_line(F, '')).
> 
> process(_F, eof) ->
>   ok;
> process(F, Line) ->
>   Tokens = string:tokens(Line, "|"),
>   io:format("~p", [Tokens]),
>   process(F, io:get_line(F, '')).
> 
> -module(parse_ok).
> 
> -export([parse/1]).
> 
> parse(FileName) ->
>   {ok, F} = file:open(FileName, [read]),
>   process(F),
>   file:close(F).
> 
> process(F) ->
>   process(F, io:get_line(F, '')).
> 
> process(_F, eof) ->
>   ok;
> process(F, Line) ->
>   Tokens = string:tokens(Line, "|"),
>   io:format("~p", [Tokens]),
>   process(F, io:get_line(F, '')).
> 

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB