Re: [Hat] Fwd: buggy sorting function

On 16 Sep 2005, at 16:09, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Thomas Davie writes:

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lappybob$ ./hellSort [6,4,2,9,10,9,3]

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[2,3,4,6,9,10,9]

^CKilled

This looks like a problem straight-away. The "Killed" message indicates that your OS is killing the program and truncating the trace file, whereas the ^C signal ought to be caught nicely, allowing the program to finish flushing the trace file to disc.

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hat-detect (error): file hellSort.hat is too short

Yup, looks like the trace file was incompletely written to disc.

In the given example program, you don't actually need to ^C it - just give it a blank line as input and it should terminate normally. Oops... dumb bob...

Given that, I was able to use hat-observe and hat-trail successfully, but the current CVS versions of hat-detect and hat-check are slightly broken (they don't deal correctly with DoLambda 0x5).

I'm working with my new version of hat-detect (although not of hat- check). I knew it would be something obvious, thanks people :) Bob