Re: nsgenbind crash

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:14:49AM -0000, Chris Young wrote:
> On Tue, November 6, 2012 10:57 pm, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 08:22:02PM +0000, Chris Young wrote:
> >> I have to remove the trailing slash on the -I parameter to pacify
> >> AmigaOS (nsgenbind tries to open javascript/WebIDL//dom.idl otherwise,
> >> which will never work)
> >
> > ok, unix doesnt care but its no problem to have it like that
>
> Cool.
>
> >> nsgenbind -I javascript/WebIDL -d build-amiga-amiga/window.d -o
> >> build-amiga-amiga/window.c javascript/jsapi/window.bnd
> >>
> >> It then crashes with this stack trace:
> >
> > this smells of stack overflow.
>
> That was my first thought too, but it says it hasn't run out of stack, and
> checking with another tool it agreed that I'd assigned 500K, and shows
> that it had only ever used 1% of that by the time it crashed.

right, it was a stack smash...caused by uninitialised variable in the
parser from the webIDL Dictionary parse (should have returned NULL
instead of "whatevers on the stack"

>
> > the fact it crashes on windows is a bit worrying, obviously it is just
> > fine on Linux but I will continue to investigate for you.
>
> Thanks. On Windows it crashes quite silently, I get the attached
> "stackdump" file continually updated/rewritten as it goes through the
> nsgenbind commands. No errors are ever reported on the Shell, until gcc
> tries to read the generated files and they aren't there.
>
> Chris

Should be fixed now, let me know


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