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Nim is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language with a design that focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

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misc debugging #254

Open timotheecour opened 4 years ago

timotheecour commented 4 years ago

internal errors during VM now produce a user code stacktrace by timotheecour · Pull Request #11642 · nim-lang/Nim
[TODO] Stacktraces with Column Information by timotheecour · Pull Request #11681 · nim-lang/Nim
Attempts at improving nim-gdb.py by saem · Pull Request #16479 · nim-lang/Nim

timotheecour commented 3 years ago

[ ] document how to generate core dumps on osx

see https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/16712#issuecomment-762011359 which worked

timotheecour commented 3 years ago

[ ] C option for gcc gnu(?): -O1 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Features?rd=Security/Features#Compile_Time_Buffer_Checks_.28FORTIFY_SOURCE.29

Using _FORTIFY_SOURCE will protect you like that for other cases too, and for open() there is one more case: open can be called either with 2 or 3 arguments, not more, seen in file /usr/include/bits/fcntl2.h as:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/56201991/1426932