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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

Please include the bug report link so I can link the patch to the bug
report.  I'll fix the coding policy errors since I'm assuming this is as
one a done patch for you.

Tom or Orson,

Any objections to this patch.  I didn't test it but on the surface it
appears to resolve the issue.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 1/14/2019 10:30 AM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> I wanted to close the loop on the SIGTRAP crash that I reported a few days ago.
> 
> The issue is probably unique to Fedora, and stems from a huge quantity of "percent complete" messages that the ngspice library passes back to KiCad.  I'm not kidding when I say huge - it amounts to over 1 megabyte of text, including many backspace characters.  When I try to select the text, it probably blows up the clipboard and causes the crash.
> 
> The ideal fix will be to have the Fedora ngspice maintainer remove a flag, which in turn will disable the "percent complete" messages.
> 
> In the interim, I have a patch that filters out any line containing a string of backspaces.  I don't know if there is any interest in applying this patch to the official KiCad sources, but I've attached it here in case there is interest.  I see it as defensive programming. :-)
> 
> I'll wait a bit to see what happens with the ngspice library.  If it looks like there will be a substantial delay in having the flag removed, I can always apply my patch and push that as the next official Fedora build.
> 
> 	Steve
> 
> On 1/11/19 2:25 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
>> On 1/11/19 1:51 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
>>> On 1/11/19 1:21 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>>>> Am 2019-01-11 12:18, schrieb Steven A. Falco:
>>>>> I tried another ngspice experiment.  I ran a simulation, and it
>>>>> worked, albeit with the data size warning I asked about earlier.  So
>>>>> far so good.
>>>>
>>>> That warning was saying that it ran out of memory and had overwritten unplanned space.  I would expect a crash after that.  I'm not sure that KiCad can trap that kind of error as it occurred inside the library.
>>>
>>> Ok, but I'm concerned about the bug reports I'll get if I were to enable ngspice and push the build to the Fedora community.
>>>
>>> I'll wait to see if the forum has any thoughts on the warning.  I'll only enable ngspice in the official Fedora builds if I can get to where the examples run cleanly.
>>
>> I saved the netlist from the simple example I've been running:
>>
>> .title KiCad schematic
>> V101 in 0 PULSE (0 5 1u 1u 1u 1 1)
>> C101 Net-_C101-Pad1_ 0 1u
>> C102 out 0 100n
>> R101 Net-_C101-Pad1_ in 10k
>> R102 out Net-_C101-Pad1_ 1k
>> .save @v101[i]
>> .save @c101[i]
>> .save @c102[i]
>> .save @r101[i]
>> .save @r102[i]
>> .save V(0)
>> .save V(GND)
>> .save V(Net-_C101-Pad1_)
>> .save V(in)
>> .save V(out)
>> .tran 1u 100m
>> .end
>>
>> When I run this circuit in stand-alone ngspice, it does a lot of overprinting, apparently to indicate the run-time of the job.  Here is a small example of the character stream, where there are tons of backspaces as part of the overprinting:
>>
>> saf$ od -c foo
>> 0000000   %   0   .   0   0  \b  \b  \b  \b  \b   %   0   .   0   0  \b
>> 0000020  \b  \b  \b  \b   %   0   .   0   0  \b  \b  \b  \b  \b   %   0
>> 0000040   .   0   0  \b  \b  \b  \n
>> 0000047
>>
>> The stand-alone captured output from this simple circuit is around 1 Mbyte!  I'm guessing that this huge amount of data is blowing up the window and showing all of the strange characters.
>>
>> I'm not sure of the division of labor here.  Is that something that a KiCad developer should address, or is it a library issue?  Hopefully there is a flag that can be passed to the library to suppress the overprinted text.
>>
>> 	Steve
>>
> 
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