Re: [xml] Compression Problem I think?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:02:36PM -0000, johnsag knology net wrote:
> Here is the situation
>
> I am currently using cygwin with the libxml2-2.4.22 and gzip1.2.4(I can't 
> change this version..hardware uses this version).
>
> I am currently trying to get the the programs to work with the new libxml2 
> but running into problem with not determist...?
>
> There are several C programs using an libxml2-2.4.22 that work fine. The 
> difference from the C programs that work and the one that does not work?.is 
> the one the doesn't work uses compression. The last call to the libxml2 
> library is xmlSaveFormatFile. The program hangs at this point. It does not 
> return our C program but probably hangs in the libxml2 library. 
>
> What I would like to be able to do:
> How do I get in tree.c(where the funxtion xmlSaveFormatFile is) and do some 
> debugging so I can see where my problem starts.
> (I have recompiled the libxml2 library with some printf calls in the tree.c 
> file and got nothing?not sure of a way of getting in there and finding 
> where the problem is)
>
> I am not very infamilar with libxml2 I may have overlooks some debugging 
> stuff
>
> I hope I have added enough information

  Well the only sane way to do this kind of debugging is to use a debugger !
launch the program under gdb, interrupt it where it blocks and check what's
going on. Nobody can really debug the problem for you since you don't
provide a way to reproduce it with xmllint.

Daniel

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