error in revDatabaseQuery() causing recursion of parent?

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Sat Oct 22 12:04:31 EDT 2016


On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
wrote:

> I don't know if all the database stuff I do has any parallel here but when
> debug stepping after a breakpoint if I stop execution(click the square) the
> app take off at some point in the call stack and goes crazy.... sometimes.
> I
> can't get a handle on it to submit a bug report yet.
>

I have seen multiple and frustrating instances in 7 & 8 in which aborting
in the debugger allows another script (the parent) to take off lie that and
even changes the active tab.

>
> By the way I haven't seen the "shadows another variable" bug since I went
> to
> LC 8.
>

It stopped in 7 when I found a few instances of routines declaring locals
with the same name as globals that for whatever reason, the compiler
happily compiled for years.  never once did it flag the correct, err,
corectly flag the incorrect, declaration.


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