[Mono-list] Debugging NUnit Test Cases

[Jonathan Pryor]

I thought I had mentioned this, but apparently I hadn't.  I debugged the
test case to determine what was causing the StackOverflowException,
thinking it was a recursive call.  While debugging, I never came across
a recursive call; the StackOverflowException was generated immediately
after I returned from a function.  The call stack depth was ~15 levels
deep, with the overhead of NUnit, not the 100's I'd expect in the case
of recursion-gone-wrong.

It's as if the call stack were somehow corrupted, and the
StackOverflowException emitted because of it.

 - Jon

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 09:23, Adam Chester wrote:
> I'm guessing StackOverFlowException means there is a recursive function call
> in there somwhere.. calling itself for eternity.
> 
> - Adam
> 
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> Subject: [Mono-list] Debugging NUnit Test Cases
> 
> 
> Is there any way to tell NAnt to compile the test cases with debugging
> information so that the NUnit test cases can be debugged with e.g.
> DbgCLR?  ``<property name="debug"/>'' doesn't seem to apply to test
> targets.  It would simplify things if I didn't have to recompile DLLs by
> hand just to get the debugging information...
> 
> Also, why is the default for some assemblies, such as System.dll, omit
> debugging information?  (<property name="debug" value="false"/>)
> 
> Finally, does anybody have any idea why I'd be getting a
> System.StackOverflowException when running an NUnit test case?  (In
> particular, the TraceTest suite, just added to CVS.  This is why it
> *isn't* part of AllTests.cs.)  It doesn't appear to be my case in
> particular, as any of the System.dll test suite's generates the same
> error on my machine.  (This is why I tried getting debugging
> information.  Even with debugging information, I didn't see any actual
> stack overflows; after a function return, the StackOverflowException was
> emitted.)
> 
> Thanks,
>  - Jon
> 
> 
> 
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