missing method crash

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Oct 21 15:37:06 UTC 2003


"Gary McGovern" <zeppy at australia.edu> wrote:
> I filed some changes in and missed a method. Then when I sent that missing
> method as a message in a workspace the system crashed. Then when I closed
> Squeak without saving, the hard drive was very active and I had to reboot
> the computer.
> 
> It seems a lot to happen for just one method missing. Shouldn't there be
> something to catch this type of thing. And... maybe a way for the image to
> save itself before a crash.

I've seen this happen when your class has no superclass, and thus
doesn't inherit a functional doesNotUnderstand: method.  Is that
possible?  If so, change the supercrlass to Object.


-Lex



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