- From: John Darrington <johnd@ot.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:38:46 +0800
- To: Irene VATTON <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:19:09AM +0100, Irene VATTON wrote:
> d°) Sometime a *** Thot: Irrecoverable error *** crashes Amaya with
> tables.
If you have a clear and repeatable scenario, that can help us to fix bugs.
I've identified several such scenarios, which are all repeatable, and
I have mailed them to this list in the past. Unfortunately the Amaya
team has reported `It works fine on our machines'. Maybe a more
comphrehensive test environment would be beneficial.
Some of the cases I tried to debug myself, and concluded the
following:
1. All cases where caused by complex uses of tables.
2. The crash occurred when the page was unloaded, not when it was
loaded.
3. The bad instruction was in a stack frame which was trying to
delete memory.
These kind of problems I have found both on Solaris and Linux
(although the symptoms differ between platforms). Maybe that whole
area of memory management and freeing of boxes needs to be looked at,
because it really is annoying to have amaya crashing all the time!!
Received on Wednesday, 21 March 2001 19:39:23 UTC