Debugging SCM->C value conversion

[Andy Wingo]

Hey Jan,

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 19:08 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Andy Wingo writes:
> 
> > CVS <-> g-wrap interaction problem.
> 
> I would like to help but I'm not sure how to go about debugging this,
> where to look.

The problem you are experiencing occurs with "dynprocs", which are the
applicable SMOBs generated by g-wrap. These dynprocs use libffi to call
the wrapped procedures. The problem is only in g-wrap.

Before applying the dynproc, libffi needs to set up a data area
containing the arguments to the C function. For each argument type,
there exists a XXX_unwrap_value function which, given a pointer to SCM,
will set the proper value in the location given as a void pointer.
dynproc_smob_apply in guile-runtime.c takes care of passing the proper
output location to the unwrap function.

One of those unwrap_value procedures is causing an error. You need to
figure out which one that is. Break on dynproc_smob_apply. When it
enters, examine fi->arg_types[5] to verify that the unwrap_value
procedure is gw__tmp41_unsigned_int_unwrap_value. The tmp41 gensym might
be different, but I doubt it.

Then, you can break on the unsigned int unwrap procedure to see which
check is failing.

This has got to be the highest-latency debugging session, ever ;-)

Hope this helps,
-- 
Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
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