Re: [PD] debugging techniques/tricks for a non-developer?

2007-11-07 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
run pd inside valgrind. it slows down pd by 50 times or so, but it checks a lot more memory accesses, and it can make the bugs easier to trigger. Thanks a lot for the information and advice. The time has come to stop being lazy and get Linux! If PD crashes, I need to know: whether there is

Re: [PD] debugging techniques/tricks for a non-developer?

2007-11-04 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: However, there are situations in which I can't even isolate the problem and that's scary because if you don't know what conditions trigger the bug/issue, run pd inside valgrind. it slows down pd by 50 times or so, but it checks a lot more memory

[PD] debugging techniques/tricks for a non-developer?

2007-11-03 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
Hi, I use PD quite a lot, and it sometimes happens to me that it crashes. Sometimes I have been able to isolate and identify the cause of the crash, in which case either it was a known bug or I reported it, or the crash was triggered by some errors in my patches that I could fix. However,