Re: [Swarm-Support] problems in [observerSwarm go]

[Derek Farren]

I see...

Thanks Paul, I was already learning how to use gdb, and you are right... it 
seems like GUISwarm´s go method isn´t crushing my program. I´ll work on it.

Derek Farren
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Johnson" <address@hidden>
To: "Swarm Support" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Swarm-Support] problems in [observerSwarm go]


> I think you are missing the point of "open source" software. You are freely 
> able to read the m file. THe source code for swarm is available.
> Keep a copy of the source with you all the time! Also, keep a full set of 
> docs too!
> I keep my directory structure like this
>
> swarm
>   doc
>     set-2.1
>   PJProjects
>   OtherPeoplesCode
>      swarmapps-2.2
>   src
>      swarm-2.2
>
>
> The first thing to do is run your model in gdb.  Have you tried that?  I 
> doubt that things that happen inside GUISwarm's go method are really 
> causing your crash, gdb usually will give you a hint about where it is.
>
> http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq/SwarmOnlineFaq.html#6.1
>
> Basically, you just type
>
> # gdb ./your-program-name
>
> -> run
> -> bt
>
> Now, to bicker with your terminology.  -go is inherited, but it is not a 
> factory method.
>
> Derek Farren wrote:
> > I realized that the method -go comes from the observerSwarm super class 
> > GUISwarm. Since this is a "factory" class its already compiled and I 
> > can´t look inside its code in an .m archive. So, there isn´t much to do 
> > in order to see where my bug is.
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated...
> >
> > Derek Farren
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: Derek Farren
> > To: address@hidden
> > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:38 PM
> > Subject: [Swarm-Support] problems in [observerSwarm go]
> >
> >
> > On main.m every Swarm simulation calls the method -go in observerSwarm 
> > via [observerSwarm go];
> >
> > My simulation freezes when reching this method and the bash window shows 
> > "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".
> >
> > I really don´t know where to start looking to fix the problem... Where 
> > can I find this method (-go)? What could be wrong?
> >
> > Derek Farren
> > Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
> > CHILE
> >
> >
> >
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