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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: ruby and rdebug
From:       barjunk <barjunk () attglobal ! net>
Date:       2008-03-31 16:50:05
Message-ID: e720256e-b916-4147-ac96-cdc84c4cb3e8 () i7g2000prf ! googlegroups ! com
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On Mar 31, 4:14 am, Chiyuan Zhang <plus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to be recursion level too deep. Have you tried to
> run ruby in gdb and get a backtrace when the program faulted?
> gdb /usr/bin/ruby test.rb
>
> 2008/3/31, barjunk <barj...@attglobal.net>:
>
> > I'm running a ruby script like so:
>
> >  ruby test.rb
>
> >  and because it has some problems it eventually crashes with
>
> >  'stack level too deep (SystemStackError)'.
>
> >  This is a problem I'm looking into, however, if I run the program like
> >  this:
>
> >  rdebug test.rb
>
> >  It doesn't crash in the same place.  In fact, I haven't been able to
> >  get it to crash at all.
>
> >  What sort of things could cause this to take place?  This happens in
> >  1.8.4 and the latest 1.8.6.
>
> >  I haven't finished trying to find the reason why my ruby program
> >  crashes in the first place, but it just seems odd that it wouldn't
> >  also crash when using rdebug.
>
> >  Ideas, suggestions?
>
> >  Mike B.

Thanks.  I have used gdb to trace the problem...I'm still working on
that.  However, the curious part is that the error doesn't occur when
using rdebug....which is the part I'm currently trying to understand.

Mike B.

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