Hi Craig,

the four key questions I can think of are a) what is the signature of the callback? b) where does the crash occur (which instruction in which function) and why? c) what is the state of the stack and register arguments when the callback enters thunkEntry (which is where all callbacks come in) d) (if things get that far) what is the state of the system after the longjmp back into thunkEntry as the system attempts to return from the callback

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On Sep 28, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Craig Latta craig@netjam.org wrote:

Hi--

I've got basic FFI connectivity going between Squeak 5 and a C

library I want to use, via Alien. Callouts seem to work, and some callbacks. Other callbacks crash, though. I know which callback isn't successfully called, but I don't have the library source, so I'm not entirely sure what it's trying to do at that point. I'm on Mac OS 10.11. I attached lldb before the crash and am staring at the library's disassembled instructions.

Does anyone have any advice for how to debug?


thanks,

-C

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