Re: [lmi] [lmi-commits] odd/eraseme_error 69d06e9 10/10: Attempt to find a problem

[Greg Chicares]

On 2021-07-07 13:20, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 11:52:14 +0000 Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> GC> On 2021-07-07 11:17, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> GC> > On Wed,  7 Jul 2021 06:22:15 -0400 (EDT) Greg Chicares 
> <gchicares@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> GC> > 
> GC> > GC> branch: odd/eraseme_error
> GC> [...]
> GC> > GC>     Attempt to find a problem
> GC> [...]
> GC> >  Is this hang reproducible? If so, I could try debugging it.
> GC> 
> GC> It's caused by a NaN.
> 
>  This is perfectly compatible with my almost superstitious fear of NaNs,
> but I wonder how is this possible then the commit message said that the
> function did return...

I don't yet know.

> GC> >  Generally speaking, the best technique for debugging problems under 
> Wine [...snip...]
> GC> 
> GC> That never worked well for me.
> 
>  Would you be interested in describing this in more details, so that I
> could perhaps try to diagnose the problem?
I believe we've been down that road before. Effort would be
better spent on making the GUI test work under pc-linux-gnu,
so that 'wine' could be avoided more completely. But that
doesn't matter right now, because I've localized the problem
and know how to write a standalone (unit-)test case.