Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

2313.0. "DW DEBUG Error When Examine String" by CSC32::DUBOIS (The early bird gets worms) Tue Feb 20 1990 13:58

With the DECWindows debugger, we get the following error when trying to 
EXAMINE a string:

%DEBUG-F-INTMEMERR, internal memory-pool error
-LIB-F-BADBLOADR, bad block address

Running the short C program below, compiled and linked /DEBUG, I step through
to the printf.  I then click on the DATA menu and VARIABLES, on the EXAMINE
(variables), I type the variable to examine as STR[0:4].  It then gives the
error.  After that I was not able to regain control of any of the DEBUGGER
windows.

Can someone please tell me why this is happening, and if there is anything
we can do to get around it?

    Thanks,

           Carol duBois

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main()
{
char *str="a crash";
printf("%s",str);
}

I suggest you ask this in TURRIS::DEBUG.  Press KP7 to add it to your
notebook.  (Or, alternately:

	ADD ENTRY DEBUG /OBJECT=easynote.confs.basesys.debug

if you have DNS support.)

<I suggest you ask this in TURRIS::DEBUG.  

Thanks, Steve, I have already put this in the DEBUG notesfile, but have not
received any response (note 781.0).  This is specific to DECWindows, so I
was hoping someone in here might have some ideas about it.  It does not
happen in the regular DEBUGGER.

Has anyone heard of this before?

        Carol

It's still the debugger.  That they use a DECwindows interface is not
directly relevant.

If you get no response, I suggest a QAR against the debugger using the
databases on TRIFID.

				Steve

Thanks, Steve.

      Carol