chroniquery can now output JSON for display using the SIMILE timeline widget. And I am finally done trying to figure out what was going wrong. Click the pictures to experience the timeline sensation for yourself. Related interesting things: Supports a fancy if specific constraint mechanism. For example, PrepareAndDispatch is only displayed in the context of […]
Also tagged chronicle, timelineIn our last chroniquery adventure, we used roc‘s chronicle-recorder to trace the execution of an xpcshell unit test and chroniquery (repo info) to use that trace to help us understand what was happening in some particularly confusing C-ish code. Actually, we’re doing that this time too, but the bag of tricks now contains additional tricks. […]
Also tagged chronicleMailnews’ libmime is one of the harder modules to wrap one’s head around. 8-letter filenames where the first four letters tend to be “mime”, home-grown glib-style OO rather than actual C++, and intermingling of display logic with parsing logic do not make for a fun development or even comprehension experience. Running an xpcshell unit test […]
Also tagged chronicle, libmimeBefore pecobro, there was chroniquery (shiny, also shiny, texty), a python binding for roc‘s chronicle-recorder omega-debugger. Now, there is still chroniquery. It just does more stuff, and does the stuff it previously did more correctly. In any event, what the awesome ‘screenshot’ (it’s from a console…) shows: A trace from running chronicle-recorder against xpcshell on […]
Also taggedMy personal laptop rolls amd64-style (rather than i686), and chronicle-recorder’s valgrind component was not working on it (“illegal instruction”). I have done some vendor-branch dancing to get chronicle-recorder’s valgrind sub-directory to use valgrind 3.3.0. A bzr branch of just the valgrind subdirectory (drop-in or build separately and make sure you invoke valgrind from that location) […]
Also tagged chronicle, visichron, visophyteThanks to new and improved time management skills (and a holiday weekend doesn’t hurt), I’ve got a chronicle-recorder visualization going on via chroniquery: Above, we have the visualization run against the ‘fancy’ program seen in the previous chroniquery posts (with one caveat, addressed later). What does it mean? The circular nodes are functions in the […]
Also tagged chronicle, visichron, visophyteI resolved the time-stamp issues from last time. Arguments are now happy because we move to the time-stamp corresponding to when the function’s prologue had completed. The booleans were wrong because they were copied to locals during the prologue, which is where the argument list referenced them. Things like this are much easier to diagnose […]
Also tagged chronicleSo, I was playing with the fantastic Chronomancer (roc‘s announcement, project link), an Eclipse GUI for chronicle-recorder, using a trace from my PyXPCOM troubles. I discovered a lack of some symbols that seemed like they should be there and decided to then run chronicle against chronicle-query and view the problem in Chronomancer so that I […]
Also tagged chronicleRobert O’Callahan‘s Chronicle-Recorder is one of the most exciting debugging tools to come down the road ever. In order to help me track down my PyXPCOM problem that has been a stumbling block to full Thunderbird integration, I’ve laid the groundwork for a nice Python-based interface to chronicle-query. You can find it in a bzr […]
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