OpenEuphoria

Re: BREAKing into Euphoria

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEu?horia.co?> Sep 11, 2007
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Andy Drummond wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > Have you tried:
> >   with trace
> >   trace(3)
> > 
> > It will slow your program down,
> > but you'll capture the last 500 statements
> > in a file, ctrace.out
> > 
> > After forcibly killing it, you might be able to 
> > see in ctrace.out what it was doing when it 
> > became non-responsive.
> 
> Ah, so trace(3)closes the ctrace.out file after each write, does it?  

It flushes the file. Same effect as closing it.

> That will do as well, I think, Rob, so thanks very much for the post.
> I will give it a try. A well known law says that I won't get the code
> to lock up with trace(3) running, of course!  I shall have to add
> "with trace" to every include file, I guess.....

Not really, just the top of your main program file,
unless you want to speed things up a bit
by not tracing certain frequently-executed code.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com