debugging into valueUninterruptably

Nevin Pratt nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Sat Nov 30 13:08:27 UTC 2002


Ross Boylan wrote:

>While tracing through the MinneStore code I've discovered that I can't step (that is, using the "send" button) into a block evaluated by valueUninterruptably (this happens in BlockClosure>>ensure:).
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>Is there any good way around this?  I have put self halts in some of the code executed by the valueUninterruptably, but this is pretty awkward.
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>P.S.  Are there any 3.4 specific VM's?  I'm still using the 3.2 one (win32)?
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I've noticed this as well, with 3.2 and 3.4.

As a side-note, you can *usually* send into #valueUninterruptably on 
VisualWorks (I've gotten weird results at times, though).

Nevin





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