[slang-users] Re: stkcheck conflicts with profile

[Jörg Sommer]

Hi John,

"John E. Davis" <davis at space.mit.edu> wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg?= Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>>using stkcheck while profiling breaks profile. Can you do anything about
>>this? E.g. disable stkcheck if profiling is active or abort profiling if
>>stkcheck is active?
>
> The debugger, profiler, and stack checker are implemented by defining
> hooks that get called before and after the execution of every
> statement/function.  There is only one set of such hooks and for that
> reason, only one of the above tasks can be performed at a time. 
>
> The only work-around

No, I don't want a work-around. You should add something like this

if (_get_bof_handler != profiler_bof)
  throw UsageError, "Another process grabbed the bof handler. Please
    pay attention that stckcheck is not active";

to profile_end() or

if (_get_bof_handler != NULL and _get_bof_handler != stkcheck_bof)
  throw UsageError, "Another bof handler is active. You can't use
    stkcheck and profiler at the same time";

to enable_stack_check(). It took me some time to find out that stkcheck
is the cause of cluttered profiling output.

Bye, Jörg.
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