[armedbear-devel] debug assert considered bad for health

[Alan Ruttenberg]

I committed a sin on this one and worked around it and didn't record the
specifics :( I'll be better next time.

But what I wanted to point out (not very constructively - sorry) was that it
would be nice if debug.assertTrue printed out what it tried to assert as a
message, to the console, so that one could diagnose a little without having
to find the line in the source code.

I've been hitting a number of these. Often they happen at odd times, with
very little to go on to even start debugging - say when compiling a
function. There isn't a stack trace that's informative, I don't know what
abcl was doing, and the report doesn't give me enough information to start.

A lot of the time I'll spend the effort to try to track it down, but I'd
certainly appreciate it if some of the developers could think a bit about
how to improve the situation wrt debugging such.

Regards,
Alan


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:

> On 5/4/10 4:47 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> > Blood pressure, specifically.
> >
> > What does one do with this:
> >
> > ABCL Debug.assertTrue() assertion failed!
> > java.lang.Error: ABCL Debug.assertTrue() assertion failed!
> >       at org.armedbear.lisp.Debug.assertTrue(Debug.java:46)
> >       at org.armedbear.lisp.Package.shadowingImport(Package.java:601)
> >       at
> org.armedbear.lisp.PackageFunctions$9.execute(PackageFunctions.java:190)
> >       at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitive.execute(Primitive.java:108)
> >       at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:776)
> >
> > No message - go hunt in source code. Yuck.
>
> Provide a test case please?  But you knew that…
>
> No recent work should have impacted this section of the code from what I
> can make of it, so we need to know how this code is failing to fix it.
>
> --
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> is nothing to compare to it now."
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