[bug #26958] debugapp crashes on base svn head

[Leigh Smith]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26958>

                 Summary: debugapp crashes on base svn head
                 Project: GNUstep
            Submitted by: leighsmith
            Submitted on: Sat 04 Jul 2009 09:34:35 AM GMT
                Category: Base/Foundation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hello,

I'm encountering problems attempting to debug applications using the head of
the repository. The application runs correctly with openapp but crashes when
run within gdb as the stack dump shows below.

The problem seems to be that GSDebugSet defined in NSProcessInfo checks if
_debug_set == nil and if so, messages the -[NSProcessInfo debugSet], which as
defined within NSProcessInfo.m, does not change _debug_set, causing the
segfault. There is also GSDebugSet defined within GSCompatibility.m, which has
a definition of debugSet that modifies _debug_set. Clearly that method should
be run, but why should there be two GSDebugSet() functions defined? The only
difference between the two functions is the check if debugTemporarilyDisabled
is set. Since debugSet is defined in NSProcessInfo and
NSProcessInfo(GSCompatibility), the earlier defined method seems to override
the one defined in the category. Perhaps I'm not understanding when the
debugSet method in NSProcessInfo should be run?

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications/PianoRoll.app/PianoRoll 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb65426c0 (LWP 3742)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb65426c0 (LWP 3742)]
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#1  0xb78a974b in GSDebugSet (level=0xb7a75880) at NSProcessInfo.m:1449
#2  0xb77f0fe5 in NSMapGet (table=0x0, key=0xb72be160)
    at NSConcreteMapTable.m:554
#3  0xb787634a in GSNumberInfoFromObject (o=0x90be630) at NSNumber.m:97
#4  0xb708c191 in +[NSNumber initialize] (self=0xb72dbda0, _cmd=0xb7308e68)
    at NSNumber.m:205
#5  0xb76cd625 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libobjc.so.2
#6  0xb76cd82e in objc_msg_lookup () from /usr/lib/libobjc.so.2
#7  0xb7889814 in ExtractValuesFromConfig (config=0x90bdf00)
    at NSPathUtilities.m:544
#8  0xb788b57b in InitialisePathUtilities () at NSPathUtilities.m:885
#9  0xb788ddd3 in NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains (directoryKey=5, 
    domainMask=65535, expandTilde=1 '\001') at NSPathUtilities.m:1759
#10 0xb77dc4a2 in +[NSBundle(GNUstep) bundleForLibrary:version:] (
    self=0xb72b7940, _cmd=0xb72b7ba0, libraryName=0x901bb00, 
    interfaceVersion=0xb72b70c0) at NSBundle.m:2365
#11 0xb6ff17d0 in +[NSBundle initialize] (self=0xb72b7940, _cmd=0xb7308e68)
    at NSBundle.m:821
#12 0xb76cd625 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libobjc.so.2
#13 0xb76cd82e in objc_msg_lookup () from /usr/lib/libobjc.so.2
#14 0xb7c994e7 in NSApplicationMain (argc=1, argv=0xbfdfde34) at
Functions.m:64
#15 0x08049002 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x0
) at PianoRoll_main.m:8
(gdb) 





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