USING: alien arrays generic generic.math help.markup help.syntax kernel math memory strings sbufs vectors io io.files classes help generic.standard continuations system debugger.private io.files.private listener ; IN: debugger ARTICLE: "errors-assert" "Assertions" "Some words to make assertions easier to enforce:" { $subsection assert } { $subsection assert= } "Runtime stack depth checking:" { $subsection depth } { $subsection assert-depth } ; ARTICLE: "debugger" "The debugger" "Caught errors can be logged in human-readable form:" { $subsection print-error } { $subsection try } "User-defined errors can have customized printed representation by implementing a generic word:" { $subsection error. } "A number of words facilitate interactive debugging of errors:" { $subsection :s } { $subsection :r } { $subsection :c } { $subsection :get } "Most types of errors are documented, and the documentation is instantly accessible:" { $subsection :help } "If the error was restartable, a list of restarts is also printed, and a numbered restart can be invoked:" { $subsection :1 } { $subsection :2 } { $subsection :3 } { $subsection :res } "Assertions:" { $subsection "errors-assert" } "You can read more about error handling in " { $link "errors" } "." ; ABOUT: "debugger" HELP: :s { $description "Prints the data stack at the time of the most recent error. Used for interactive debugging." } ; HELP: :r { $description "Prints the retain stack at the time of the most recent error. Used for interactive debugging." } ; HELP: :c { $description "Prints the call stack at the time of the most recent error. Used for interactive debugging." } ; HELP: :get { $values { "variable" "an object" } { "value" "the value, or f" } } { $description "Looks up the value of a variable at the time of the most recent error." } ; HELP: :res { $values { "n" "a positive integer" } } { $description "Continues executing the " { $snippet "n" } "th restart. Since restarts may only be invoked once, this resets the " { $link restarts } " global variable." } ; HELP: :1 { $description "A shortcut for invoking the first restart." } ; HELP: :2 { $description "A shortcut for invoking the second restart." } ; HELP: :3 { $description "A shortcut for invoking the third restart." } ; HELP: error. { $values { "error" "an error" } } { $contract "Print an error to " { $link output-stream } ". You can define methods on this generic word to print human-readable messages for custom errors." } { $notes "Code should call " { $link print-error } " instead, which handles the case where the printing of the error itself throws an error." } ; HELP: error-help { $values { "error" "an error" } { "topic" "an article name or word" } } { $contract "Outputs a help article which explains the error." } ; { error-help :help } related-words HELP: print-error { $values { "error" "an error" } } { $description "Print an error to " { $link output-stream } "." } { $notes "This word is called by the listener and other tools which report caught errors to the user." } ; HELP: restarts. { $description "Print a list of restarts for the most recently thrown error to " { $link output-stream } "." } ; HELP: try { $values { "quot" "a quotation" } } { $description "Attempts to call a quotation; if it throws an error, the error is printed to " { $link output-stream } ", stacks are restored, and execution continues after the call to " { $link try } "." } { $examples "The following example prints an error and keeps going:" { $code "[ \"error\" throw ] try" "\"still running...\" print" } { $link "listener" } " uses " { $link try } " to recover from user errors." } ; HELP: expired-error. { $error-description "Thrown by " { $link alien-address } " and " { $link alien-invoke } " if an " { $link alien } " object passed in as a parameter has expired. Alien objects expire if they are saved an image which is subsequently loaded; this prevents a certain class of programming errors, usually attempts to use uninitialized objects, since holding a C address is meaningless between sessions." } { $notes "You can check if an alien object has expired by calling " { $link expired? } "." } ; HELP: io-error. { $error-description "Thrown by the C streams I/O primitives if an I/O error occurs." } ; HELP: type-check-error. { $error-description "Thrown by various primitives if one of the inputs does not have the expected type. Generic words throw " { $link no-method } " and " { $link no-math-method } " errors in such cases instead." } ; HELP: divide-by-zero-error. { $error-description "This error is thrown when " { $link / } " or " { $link /i } " is called with with a zero denominator." } { $see-also "division-by-zero" } ; HELP: signal-error. { $error-description "Thrown by the Factor VM when a Unix signal is received. While signal numbers are system-specific, the following are relatively standard:" { $list { "4 - Illegal instruction. If you see this error, it is a bug in Factor's compiler and should be reported." } { "8 - Arithmetic exception. Most likely a divide by zero in " { $link /i } "." } { "10, 11 - Memory protection fault. This error suggests invalid values are being passed to C functions by an " { $link alien-invoke } ". Factor also uses memory protection to trap stack underflows and overflows, but usually these are reported as their own errors. Sometimes they'll show up as a generic signal 11, though." } } "The Windows equivalent of a signal 11 is a SEH fault. When one occurs, the runtime throws a singal error, even though it does not correspond to a Unix signal." } ; HELP: array-size-error. { $error-description "Thrown by " { $link } ", " { $link } ", " { $link } " and " { $link } " if the specified capacity is negative or too large." } ; HELP: c-string-error. { $error-description "Thrown by " { $link alien-invoke } " and various primitives if a string containing null bytes, or characters with values higher than 255 is passed in where a C string is expected. See " { $link "c-strings" } "." } ; HELP: ffi-error. { $error-description "Thrown by " { $link dlopen } " and " { $link dlsym } " if a problem occurs while loading a native library or looking up a symbol. See " { $link "alien" } "." } ; HELP: heap-scan-error. { $error-description "Thrown if " { $link next-object } " is called outside of a " { $link begin-scan } "/" { $link end-scan } " pair." } ; HELP: undefined-symbol-error. { $error-description "Thrown if a previously-compiled " { $link alien-invoke } " call refers to a native library symbol which no longer exists." } ; HELP: datastack-underflow. { $error-description "Thrown by the Factor VM if an attempt is made to pop elements from an empty data stack." } { $notes "You can use the stack effect tool to statically check stack effects of quotations. See " { $link "inference" } "." } ; HELP: datastack-overflow. { $error-description "Thrown by the Factor VM if an attempt is made to push elements on a full data stack." } { $notes "This error usually indicates a run-away recursion, however if you legitimately need a data stack larger than the default, see " { $link "runtime-cli-args" } "." } ; HELP: retainstack-underflow. { $error-description "Thrown by the Factor VM if " { $link r> } " is called while the retain stack is empty." } { $notes "You can use the stack effect tool to statically check stack effects of quotations. See " { $link "inference" } "." } ; HELP: retainstack-overflow. { $error-description "Thrown by the Factor VM if " { $link >r } " is called when the retain stack is full." } { $notes "This error usually indicates a run-away recursion, however if you legitimately need a retain stack larger than the default, see " { $link "runtime-cli-args" } "." } ; HELP: memory-error. { $error-description "Thrown by the Factor VM if an invalid memory access occurs." } { $notes "This can be a result of incorrect usage of C library interface words, a bug in the compiler, or a bug in the VM." } ; HELP: primitive-error. { $error-description "Thrown by the Factor VM if an unsupported primitive word is called." } { $notes "This word is only ever thrown on Windows CE, where the " { $link cwd } ", " { $link cd } ", and " { $link os-env } " primitives are unsupported." } ; HELP: assert { $values { "got" "the obtained value" } { "expect" "the expected value" } } { $description "Throws an " { $link assert } " error." } { $error-description "Thrown when a unit test or other assertion fails." } ; { assert assert-depth } related-words HELP: depth { $values { "n" "a non-negative integer" } } { $description "Outputs the number of elements on the data stack." } ; HELP: assert-depth { $values { "quot" "a quotation" } } { $description "Runs a quotation. Throws an error if the total number of elements on the stack is not the same before and after the quotation runs." } ; HELP: init-debugger { $description "Called on startup to set a pair of hooks which allow the " { $link throw } " word to function." } ;