[ODE] Framework for reproducing bugs

[Shaul Kedem]

Great idea. 

Russ: can such a feature be platform independant? can
someone record on win32 with PIII and then replay on
SGI machine?

shul

--- nlin at nlin.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed a question earlier about a random LCP
> solver error which caused
> things to blow up intermittently. In my engine I
> have a reproducible
> framework built in so that I can replay any sequence
> of events for
> debugging.
> 
> Would it be a good idea to build something like this
> into ODE? I.e.
> if you seem to have a problematic configuration
> which blows up, then
> you turn on some logging facility in ODE before
> calling any other ODE
> functions. Then, every call to any ODE function is
> recorded (only needs
> to monitor the public calls, since that is the only
> interface external
> users have).  Add to this a "playback" facility for
> reading back the
> stream of calls, and you have a way of reproducing
> any bug. (Only within
> a particular ODE version, of course, since behavior
> may change with
> releases.) Then users could say "with snapshot
> ode-011008 I am getting a
> blowup after function call number 273 in the
> attached stream", and
> anybody could reproduce and debug it.
> 
> -Norman
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