OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria's Future?

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Nov 16, 2001
• 539 views

Were the planets properly aligned?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Euphoria's Future?


>
> Henri Goffin writes:
> > This is simply not true, at least on NT/W2K platforms.
> > The reason is the bound executable starts in a new console
> > window that is unaware of the invoking window's environment.
>
> With the Euphoria source, you'll be able to build your
> own exw.exe that is more console-oriented. It should work
> with STDIN/STDOUT on any system. You just have to edit
> one line in the .bat file that I'll distribute with it. Maybe I'll make a
version
> like that myself and upload it once 2.3 alpha is out.
>
> > There is also the problem of a memory violation error
> > that I have with a bound Euphoria program. The answer of
> > Robert to my request for help was rather disappointing because
> > too reminescent of Microsoft's favorite silver bullet:
> > "reboot your system, maybe the problem will have disappeared".
> > Who would dare build his/her business on such a basis?
>
> On Oct 5, 2001 I replied to you...
>
> R> In 2.3 the interpreter will have trace(3) which will allow you
> R> to log the exact Euphoria statement that was being executed
> R> when a machine-level crash like this occurred.
>
> R> Until then, you can insert print statements to pin down
> R> where the crash happens.
>
> Did you insert any print statements?
> If not, wait 10 days or so until trace(3) is available.
> You'll also be able to try the new 2-pass binder,
> although I doubt that a binding bug is the
> root cause of your problems.
> >From my experience these cases usually turn out
> to be a bug in the application that only shows up
> when it's bound (or it's Tuesday afternoon, or there's
> unusual sunspot activity, or ...)
>
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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