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How to use “trace” when dealing with an “out of memory” exception/stackoverflow in Haskell?

Context: I'm writing an interpreter for a language which is basically a small subset of Haskell. Haskell's lazy evaluation is being a poo and refusing to evaluate this trace command due to (I suspect)...
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How can I get a complete, untrucated stack trace in OCaml after a stack overflow?

OCaml stack traces for stack overflows are truncated; for example, the following program produces the stack trace shown below: let rec f0 () = 1 + f1 () and f1 () = 1 + f2 () and f2 () = 1 + ...
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How to debug a stack overflow exception?

I am working on a game, and everything was fine, until I added some features. I worked for about one month on this features, and unfortunately I wasn't wise enough to test smaller parts of the code, ...
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libasan giving stack-buffer-overflow inside time_t time (time_t *__timer) -> sys/time.h

I am facing a problem while using libasan to improve some code I have written. Situation: -- compile code with -fsanitize=address -lasan -- run the code. Sample below: #include <iostream> #...
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Stack content for g++4.8

I have written this simple piece of code for testing buffer overflow: #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> using namespace std; int f(int x, int y, char *s){ char buf[4]; strcpy(...
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Disabling Debug/Close when on StackOverflow exception

I've been trying to avoid the Debug/Close dialog when I get a stack overflow exception in my application (I need my application to shut down without user interference). Using SetErrorMode(...
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StackOverflow in android choreographer - weird drawable error

I don't know how to debug or solve this problem. I have a touch handler for a ribbon that changes an image using a TransitionDrawable. If I move the finger very fast for a -moderate long- while, the ...
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StackOverflowException after returning private variable, only while stepping through code

I'm getting a StackOverflowException in seemingly innocent code: private void OnSelectedModelChanged(object sender, EventArgs eventArgs) { LoadNoticeDetails(); // Line #1 } private void ...
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How to set a gdb watchpoint to a value stored in register?

I'm trying to detect stack overflow in some function, and want to set a watchpoint to a memory pointed by the RSP register. I can't just set a watchpoint to a certain address as the function could be ...
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Debugging stack overflow in C?

I have this sample program which when compiled with fstack-protector-all gives a stack smashing. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdint.h> int func(int* value) { uint8_t port = 1; *...
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Debugging neovim, buffer overflow detected by OS X 10.9 libc, in need of a better way to debug it

First of all a bit of context: I'm trying to debug an issue that's happening with neovim, I'm not sure if this also happens with plain vim, but it's not all that relevant. Even though the reporter ...
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Debugging undebuggable application for memory corruption

This is a bad situation: I have a large C++ application on Windows which is having a memory corruption. Basically I dumped the content of a float variable and found the ASCII code of "hell" from a ...
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Debugging a stack overflow in haskell

I'm new to Haskell and functional programming and I have a program which works but overflows the stack after a few seconds. My question is, what should I do from here? How can I get at least a hint of ...
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Why this stack smashing?

I got the following code(part of a log function): /* set to 32 on purpose */ #define MAX_LOG_MSG_SZ 32 void log(const char *fmt, ...) { .... char msg[MAX_LOG_MSG_SZ] = {0}; int nb_bytes ...
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“Error: Error #1023: Stack overflow occurred.” without a break or object reference

My console window gets a set of about 15 copies of this line: Error: Error #1023: Stack overflow occurred. Error: Error #1023: Stack overflow occurred. Error: Error #1023: Stack overflow occurred. ...
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Stackoverflow error in Reversi game written in Haskell

this code is causing a stack overflow error - can any of you people see anything Ive missed that could be causing it? Ive gone through all the functions and set them to just return arbitrary values ...
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Can't get Windbg to load symbols

I'll admit to being completely new to Windbg so hopefully this is a noobish question that I couldn't find the answer for on the internet. Anyways, here is my symbol path: SRV*c:\symbols*http://msdl....
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Eclipse + Python: Stack overflow during debug - not run

I have the following Python code in Eclipse which causes stack overflow when debugging: v = ogr.Feature(layer.GetLayerDefn()) The method calls are part of the GDAL/OGR library and the Error message ...
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How to debug a stack overflow in C in IAR Workbench

I'm working on a C project using IAR Embedded Workbench IDE and the TI CC2540 Bluetooth Low Energy 8051 chip. I seem to be getting tons of XData stack and Idata stack overflows while working on the ...
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how to expand size of Java stack trace to see bottom of stack? (triggering a stack overflow)

In Java, is there any way to view the complete, untruncated stack trace (e.g. by increasing the number of frames recorded), or otherwise get at the bottom of a stack trace? Normally the stack trace ...
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Windows service / A new guard page for the stack cannot be created

I have a windows service that does some intensive work every one minute (actually it is starting a new thread each time in which it syncs to different systems over http). The problem is, that after a ...
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OpenCL stackoverflow. How to solve it?

I'm having a problem when I try to run the reduction program from the OpenCL in Action's sources. Im using Visual Studio 2008. This is the error: Unhandled exception in 0x013526a7 in Reduction....
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Find StackOverflow generating code in C# using VS2010

I have solution with few projects for calculation proposes. Code after 20 minutes of work crashing by StackOverflowException. How to find problem? I don't have any recursion functions in code or when ...
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How can I debug this StackOverflowException in my WinForm application?

I have a winform application. Every few seconds I check some log files, read in any new data and insert any new data into a DB. When I run the application for around an hour 1/2, I get a ...
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How to detect the one function causing a stack overflow quickly in Visual C++?

I have a huge C++ codebase. On a certain set of data there's a stack overflow. If I run the program under Visual Studio debugger I get a call stack 30 unfamiliar functions deep - one (or more) of ...
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Troubleshooting SQL Server Stack Overflow error

How can I effectively troubleshoot this error? The query processor ran out of stack space during query optimization. Please simplify the query. Msg 8621, Level 17, State 2 I've tried to ...
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How can I debug a stack overflow in Ruby 1.9.2?

I have some Ruby code sits on top of Chipmunk and OpenGL C libraries. Something in my program is causing a stack overflow at the C or Ruby level. I'm looking for some strategies to figure out where ...
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How to debug: w3wp.exe process was terminated due to a stack overflow (works on one machine but not another)

The problem I have an ASP.NET 4.0 application that crashes with a stack overflow on one computer, but not another. It runs fine on my development environment. When I move the site to the production ...
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Debug problem occurs sometimes in Silverlight when in Chrome

I am using a dedicated test SL web application that hosts SL object I am debugging. I am debugging using basic F5 and use browser Google Chrome. Sometimes a bug happens, how I reproduce it. I was ...
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w3p.exe terminated due to stack overflow - how to track down the issue?

we are getting a stack overflow in production ~ 2-4 times / day We cannot reproduce this is in dev environment, nad given this is a web app with probably ~100 concurrent users at any one time, I'm ...
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Help debug a stackoverflow - next steps with repeating stack?

Folks, I've got a stack overflow in my .net 4.0 app. using WinDbg I've found the following chunk of stack-info repeated 110 times (with different memory addresses of course), which leads me to ...
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Fastest way to break in WinDbg for specific exception? .net 4.0 app

Folks, Debugging a .net 4.0 app using WinDbg (I'm a beginner to WinDbg). I'm trying to break when I hit a stack overflow: (NTSTATUS) 0xc00000fd – A new guard page for the stack cannot be created ...
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C# binary search tree - stack overflow - debug

I am a newbie learning C# after C++. VS2010. Trying to debug my code, I come across weird empty lines in the "locals" frame. The debugger just quits after a few seconds of me staring at these empty ...
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How to debug a stackoverflow problem on targets

I want to know how do we proceed to debug a STACKOVERFLOW issue on targets . I mean what are the steps we should follow to reach a conclusion.
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IIS 6.0 hangs when serving a web-service

I am having issues with one of our web-services. It works fine on my development machine (win XP) whether I host it as a separate application or using cassini from Visual studio. Once I deploy on the ...
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Can you give an example of stack overflow in C++?

Can you give an example of stack overflow in C++? Other than the recursive case: void foo() { foo(); }
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debug stack overflow in windows?

So I'm trying to debug this strange problem where a process ends without calling some destructors... In the VS (2005) debugger, I hit 'Break all' and look around in the call stacks of the threads of ...
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How can I guarantee catching a EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW structured exception in C++ under Visual Studio 2005?

Background I have an application with a Poof-Crash[1]. I'm fairly certain it is due to a blown stack. The application is Multi-Threaded. I am compiling with "Enable C++ Exceptions: Yes With SEH ...