[brailleblaster] Re: Reporting bugs
- From: François Ouellette <braille@xxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:02:07 -0400
John: the errors had to do with unterminated HTML tags, the message
was saying something like "premature ending of tag", it was happening
because the HTML document I was trying to read was not using a strict
syntax. Since everything is clean now and there are no generated
errors I obviously do not get the stack dump anymore.
François.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:15 AM, John J. Boyer
<john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I would need the original erroneous semantic-action fie to track
> down the bug. I assume you are using the latest liblouis.dll that Vic
> sent out a few days ago.
>
> Creating an empty log file in Java is unlikely to help. The problem is
> in C.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:43:57AM -0400, Fran�ois Ouellette wrote:
>> Sometimes bugs are indeed difficult to trace. The funny part if that
>> despite the run-time error message I was still getting the liblouis
>> messages to the standard output. They had to do with semantic issues,
>> and once they have been fixed I did not get the error message anymore.
>> Perhaps the easiest solution would be to always create an empty log
>> file, like I did in the earlier changes. These memory violation errors
>> are almost always caused by an invalid address in a pointer.
>>
>> F.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:28 AM, John J. Boyer
>> <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > It helps greatly if I can reproduce the bug. These crashes are probably
>> > caused by something in the configuration file or in the semantic-action
>> > file. So it would be good to send these to me.
>> >
>> > Bugs are seldom where they seem to be. The hard part is finding them.
>> > Fixing them is usually simple.
>> > It would also help to have the xhtml file produced by tika for a typical
>> > documennt.
>> >
>> > John
>> >
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>> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
>> > Abilitiessoft, Inc.
>> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
>> > Developing software for people with disabilities
>> >
>> >
>
> --
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
>
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