Restkit: getting objc_exception_throw in saveContextToPersistentStore, RKManagedObjectRequestOperation.m - exception

I am getting, just for once every app runtime, an exception in the method saveContextToPersistentStore in RKManagedObjectRequestOperation.m: on line
success = [contextToSave save:&localError];
success is YES, localError is nil. I can continue the program execution in debugger.
I tried to wrap it with #try block but with no success (as something else took care of this) to get more information why it happens.
Can you help me to investigate the cause of this? Is this something I should pay attention to? This answer may targets this issues. But I am not sure, if the problem is local or caused in higher layers (Restkit mapping).
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Uncaught (in promise) -- How to find the source of the problem in a Deno program

I'm having trouble with my Deno program. I'm getting messages like this:
error: Uncaught (in promise) Error: No such host is known. (os error 11001)
at deno:core/01_core.js:106:46
at unwrapOpResult (deno:core/01_core.js:126:13)
at async Object.connect (deno:extensions/net/01_net.js:219:13)
Then deno exits.
I don't know how to debug this. This stack trace only points to code that comes with Deno, not to my code.
I've searched my code and I've put a .catch() or a try/catch everywhere I can think of, but that did not help.
Is there anything I can do to help me find the problem? I'd love it if I could get a complete stack dump. Or if I could have the debugger pause at the problem. Or if you have any other suggestions.
Thanks!
Edit 8/29/2021
I found two bugs in my code. Here are the actual bugs. It was a serious pain to track these down. I'm still looking for a tool or process to help the next time I make a silly mistake like this.
Bug #1:
I was using try/catch (shown in red) when I should have been using .catch() (shown in green). My try/catch did nothing. If there was an error sending the data, that would cause my program to crash.
Bug #2:
const promise = Deno.connect(options);
promise.catch(reportError);
promise.then(longRunningTask);
await someOtherPromise;
promise.then(connection => {
// We never get to here.
try {
connection.close();
} catch {
console.log("šŸ™");
}
});
// And we never get to here.
The code I've shown here was spread throughout a much longer program. I did not understand the rules regarding promises. The second .then() requires a second .catch().
Here was one of my attempts to solve this problem. I told VS code to break on all exceptions. It seems to ignore my request. I never got to a breakpoint, but the debug console shows that the program crashed because of an exception.

Graceful failure in Labview (after failed opening of device - in this case camera)

I was wondering how to make it so the rest of the program runs when one component fails to (and therefor the rest of the path that relied on this component is incapacitated as well). In other languages, this is equivalent to "catching an exception," but the added issue here is that I'm afraid that even if such a feature existed (cant find if it does), then the rest of the program would still try to run... Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
LabVIEW doesn't have exception handling, but handles error in a different way: (nearly) all VIs accept an error cluster as input (and so should yours); if it is positive (an error occurred), theĀ VIĀ will return immediately, passing error as output, and next will get it as input, etc. This is called error.
As all these VIs transmit this cluster between each others you will get it in your top-level VI, so if error occurs you just have to cleanup stuff correctly it and exit.

How to debug a runtime stack underflow error?

I'm really struggling to resolve a stack underflow that I'm getting. The traceback I get at runtime is:
VerifyError: Error #1024: Stack underflow occurred.
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()
This is particularly difficult to debug because when I run in debug mode it does not happen at all. It only happens when compiled as a release.
Does anyone have any tips on how to debug a Stack Underflow? Are have a clean explanation of what that means for Flash?
In case it helps, this error is occurring when I click a button whose handler makes an RPC call, which uses a URLLoader, an AsyncToken, and then invokes the set of AsyncResponder instances associated with the AsyncToken. With some server-side logging as well as some logging hacked into the swf, I know that the UrlLoader is successfully doing and GET'ing a crossdomain.xml file, is correctly processing it (ie: if I wreck it, I get a security error), and is also successfully completing the "load" request (the server sends the data). The underflow seems to be happening in the Event.COMPLETE listening/handling process (as is, of course, implied by the traceback as well).
mxmlc used = from flex_sdk_4.5.0.20967
Example player (I've tried a few) = 10.2.153.1
UPDATE: My specific problem is solved... but I'm leaving the question as-is since I would like to know how to generally debug such a problem, rather than just getting my specific solution.
In my code I had the following Application definition:
<s:Application height="100%" width="100%"
xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
initialize="InitData();">
Note that the code is/was attached to the initialize event.
InitData() and relevant defintions are/were:
import classes.RpcServerProxy;
public var SP:RpcServerProxy;
public function InitData():void {
SP = new RpcServerProxy("http://192.168.1.102:1234");
}
When I switched the InitData() call to be on the onCompletion event instead of initialize (thanks J_A_X!), the problem goes away entirely. What seems to have been happening was that the Event.COMPLETE event handler (onComplete in the stack trace) was using the global SP object. Something about the release (vs debug) compilation must have been affecting the startup timing of the SP variable initialization. Moving the handler later to the onCompletion event resolved all issues.
As said above, I would still like to know what tricks/tools are available for debugging initialization issues like this.
UPDATE 2:
applicationComplete seems to be an even better event than creationComplete to put application initialization code. See this blog entry for some explanation, and and this video (around 4:25) by an Adobe Tech Evangelist for an example of simple "start of application" data initialization.
I got rid of this error by adding compiler argument:
-omit-trace-statements=false
Stack underflow basically means the compiler messed up.
You can use SWFWire Inspector to look at the bytecode of the event handler, if you want to know exactly how it messed up. You can also use SWFWire Debugger to see which methods were called, but in this case, you already knew where it was happening.
If you post the broken swf, I can give you more info.
Sean is right that to debug it you can look at the byte code, but that didn't sound appealing to me.
Based on my experience and research, it is often due to the presence of a trace statement that incorrectly gets compiled out in release mode, and generates invalid byte code. So, I would say to "debug" it, "Look for places where you are using trace. Try commenting them all out in the offending function and see if the issue goes away."
In my case, it was a trace statement as the first line of a catch block:
catch (e:TypeError) {
trace(e.getStackTrace()); //This line is the problem
throw new Error("Unexpected type encountered");
}
I found someone else with this exact issue here.
This code also leads to stack underflow only in release mode (flag -debug=false):
true && trace('123');
mxlmc flex sdk version 4.5.0.20967, flashplayer version 10.3.181.14 (linux).
Check your code for similar expressions.
This code caused me issues when I compiled a release candidate from flash builder 4.5
public function set configVO( value:PopupConfigVO ):void
{trace("CHANGING")
Resolved by inserting a space between the the trace and curly brace
public function set configVO( value:PopupConfigVO ):void
{ trace("CHANGING")
Hope this helps.
For people looking for the same problem, I just got this caused by a trace statement in the 'default' case of a switch statement. Commented out the trace, stack underflow resolved.
Interesting... I was getting this error with a SWF that I'd pulled off the web, an Away3D based graphics demo. At the time I was running this on the Tamarin VM rather than the actual Flash/AIR runtimes, so could stick a breakpoint on the "verifyFailed(kStackUnderflowError)" line and see what was happening.
The -Dverbose flag also helped find the culprit:
typecheck MethodInfo-1480()
outer-scope = [global]
[Object~ Object] {} ()
0:pop
VERIFY FAILED: Error #1024: Stack underflow occurred.
And looking at the ABC using SWFInvestigator, I found this:
var function(Object):void /* disp_id=0 method_id=1480 nameIndex = 0 */
{
// local_count=2 max_scope=0 max_stack=0 code_len=2
// method position=52968 code position=155063
0 pop
1 returnvoid
}
So there is an obvious issue where the 'trace' has been removed but the compiler has put a 'pop' in there: I wouldn't have thought this was needed as a trace call should presumably have been made via 'callpropvoid'?
Quite why this doesn't fail on AIR/Flash I don't know..
Anyway: looks to me like an ASC compiler problem i.e perhaps one of the ActionScript3 compilers had a fault with this - hence the workarounds that have been mentioned so far.
It's quite simple, and it doesn't have anything to do with spaces before or after brackets, trace commands or whatever else: it's just 1 really simple thingy:
DO NOT LOOP EMPTY!
Meaning, while developing, we all //comment some lines sometimes, and when that results in
for (...) {
// skip for now
}
the compiler gets :
for(...){}
and that my good friends, is something the compiler doesn't like!
so, NO empty loops, and you're on your way again...
Happy hunting,
P.
I had the exact same problem, but in my case the cause of the problem was a trace statement in a place where the compiler didn't expect it to find it, right after a package declaration at the beginning of the class:
package utils
{
trace ("trace something here");
And that's why compiling in debug mode removed the problem.

lstrcpy() causing exceptions in visual C++ code

I used a MFC virtual list control to enhance the performance and I handle GetDispInfo(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult) to populate the ListCtrl. The relevant code in that method is as follows:
if (pItem->mask && LVIF_TEXT)
{
switch(pItem->iSubItem)
{
case 0:
lstrcpy(pItem->pszText, rLabel.m_strText);
break;
case 1:
sprintf(pItem->pszText, "%d", p.o_Value);
break;
default:
ASSERT(0);
break;
}
}
Here, when I use lstrcpy(),when I'm srolling down/up, I get a whole lot of exceptions saying First-chance exception at 0x7c80c741 in test_list_control.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0xb70bf2ac. These messages appear in the debug output. But the program doesn't crash. Can anyone please explain what the matter here and how should I overcome that??
rLabel is a CLabelItem which I have declared earlier.
Thank you!
If all you see is the first chance exception thing, stop worrying. See for example Link but you can find similar pages all over the place (mostly from 5-10 years ago.) It means some code threw and the exception was caught and dealt with. I see this in MFC apps some times. As the blog entry says
First chance exception messages most
often do not mean there is a problem
in the code.
I would wait until you see actual errors before getting worked up about this one.
I think you should check if buffer that is pointed by pItem->pszText is large enough to hold rLabel.m_strText. Or if rLabel.m_strText is correct null terminated string. For me this looks like writing uninitialized memory. Use the debugger to check this.

How to trace COM objects exceptions?

I have a DLL with some COM objects. Sometimes, this objects crashes and register an error event in the Windows Event Log with lots of hexadecimal informations. I have no clue why this crashes happens.
So, How can I trace those COM objects exceptions?
The first step is to lookup the Fail code's hex value (E.G. E_FAIL 0x80004005). I've had really good luck with posting that value in Google to get a sense of what the error code means.
Then, I just use trial and error to try to isolate the location in code that's failing, and the root cause of the failure.
If you just want a really quick way to find out what the error code means, you could use the "Error Lookup" tool packaged with Visual Studio (details here). Enter the hex value, and it will give you the string describing that error code.
Of course, once you know that, you've still got to figure out why it's happening.
A good way to look up error (hresult) codes is HResult Plus or welt.exe (Windows Error Lookup Tool).
I use logging internally in the COM-classes to see what is going on. Also, once the COM-class is loaded by the executable, you can attach the VS debugger to it and debug the COM code with breakpoints, watches, and all that fun stuff.
COM objects don't throw exceptions. They return HRESULTs, most of which indicate a failure. So if you're looking for the equivalent of an exception stack trace, you're out of luck. You're going to have to walk through the code by hand and figure out what's going on.