> On 30 Jun 2018, at 02:56, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Guille,
>
> On Jun 29, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> during today's sprint we have been working with lots of people on the
>> infinite debugger problem (https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/22085/
>> <https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/22085/>). We have checked the emails sent
>> in the latest month. Then, together with Quentin, Pablo, Pavel, Yoan we have
>> been discussing and testing hypothesis all day. We have been also comparing
>> the debuggers code between pharo 3/4 (where the bug was is present) and
>> pharo 7, but this was not necessarily straight forward as the code is not
>> the same and there is no easy diff...
>
> This is frustrating. I can’t see the issue cuz I can’t login to fogbugz.
> Having to login to read an issue is a major flaw. I can see it makes sense
> for submitting, but fir merely browsing it should be unacceptable. That
> said...
>
> The pragma <primitive: 199> actually sets the primitive number in the method,
> so it it not merely a pragma; it alters bits in the method that the VM uses
> to search for handler contexts. So why one would do that for evaluateSignal:
> makes no sense to me. The primitive should be set only in on:do: or something
> very similar (for example one could imagine adding on:or:do: instead of using
> , to construct an ExceptionSet). So I think removing it from evaluateSignal:
> is definitely the right thing to do.
>
> As far as tests for findNextHandlerFrom:, this is tested implicitly by any
> nested exception test so I expect you have several tests affected. Clément
> points to a test that fails when not including <primitive: 199> in
> evaluateSignal: so more investigation is necessary. Difficult to do while
> bugs are hidden in fogbugz. When are they going to migrate the github where
> they belong?
Yes, the idea was to move the issue tracker to GitHub… but after the release is
done (as it requires changing again some things).
The closed-ness of fugbugz is really annoying.
Marcus
