Subj : Re: Exception occurs only when run outside the debugger *confused*
To   : comp.programming
From : moi
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 04:06 pm

Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
> Randy Howard wrote:
> 
>> Congratulations, you have found a heisenbug.  
>> http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html
> 
> Haha! Seriously, I didn't know this kind of bug until now. It's kind
> of hilarious, but then again, it's also annoying.
> 
>> The bad news, is they are a bitch to remove.
> 
> I guess so. Looks like divide and conquer is my best bet.

The other way would be to force the program to generate a core file,
and do some post-mortem debugging. (doing an abort() in a signalhandler
is ugly, but it may get you to the right spot very fast)

HTH,
AvK

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