Re: [Emc-developers] EMC's 'silent segfaulting' behaviour

2011-09-15 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Of course, segfaulting is unacceptable to begin with. It's pretty hard to eliminate them if no one knows that they occurred. It would be great if we generated some sort of message with an opportunity to report this to the developers. It's hard to do that if a machine isn't connected to a networ

[Emc-developers] EMC's 'silent segfaulting' behaviour

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Haberler
I wonder what folks think about the current EMC behaviour of 'silent segfaulting'. IMO this is unacceptable - it should at least report the fact and create a backtrace for inspection. Opinions? -Michael example - while debugging a patch, the task interp instance segfaulted and continued to