Comment 54 for bug 1835296

@Holger, if you want to try out JetBrains’ CLion, we got an extra license floating around. (Although it may need to be renewed at this point.)

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 17 Sep 2019, at 09:02, Holger Vogt <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Acquired a MacBook Air.
> Installed KiCad from https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=osx/testing/5.1/
> Can reproduce the bug.
> Set up ngspice to compile (with or without debug info).
> Not yet happy with the debug environment (may switch to XCode?).
> Will check the issue over next weekend.
>
> Due to being close before a new ngspice release (ngspice-31), if there
> is some ngspice bug, we may consider it immediately.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835296
>
> Title:
> simulating laser_driver on macos nightly causes segfault
>
> Status in KiCad:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Running the 20190703 nightly MacOS build (which I believe has the new
> ngspice-30 library, although I don't know how to check), simulating
> the laser_driver or sallen_key demo project causes a hard crash of the
> entire KiCad application. In particular, pressing "Run/Stop
> Simulation" causes a segmentation fault in libngspice.0.dylib. Stack
> trace and version information below.
>
> The other two demo simulation projects (rectifier, pspice) do not
> crash, and seem to give sensible simulation results.
>
> The most obvious difference between the crashing (laser_driver,
> sallen_key) and working (rectifier, pspice) projects is that the
> crashing projects include external spice model libraries (e.g.
> ad8009.lib in laser_driver) and the working projects use only internal
> models. My own projects seem to crash if they include external models,
> but I haven't systematically tested.
>
> Please let me know if I can provide any additional information.
>
> Stack trace:
>
> Crashed Thread: 13
>
> Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
> Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000001d0
> Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
>
> ...
>
> Thread 13 Crashed:
> 0 libngspice.0.dylib 0x000000011a962c5d MIFsetup + 109
> 1 libngspice.0.dylib 0x000000012623f3d6 CKTsetup + 214
> 2 libngspice.0.dylib 0x00000001262391b1 CKTdoJob + 961
> 3 libngspice.0.dylib 0x0000000125e48050 if_run + 1296
> 4 libngspice.0.dylib 0x0000000125e4513e dosim + 894
> 5 libngspice.0.dylib 0x0000000125e148cb docommand + 299
> 6 libngspice.0.dylib 0x0000000125e13ece doblock + 126
> 7 libngspice.0.dylib 0x0000000125e13ca3 cp_evloop + 2547
> 8 libngspice.0.dylib 0x0000000125e0a531 _thread_run + 65
> 9 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff71c342eb _pthread_body + 126
> 10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff71c37249 _pthread_start + 66
> 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff71c3340d thread_start + 13
>
> Version information:
>
> Application: Eeschema
> Version: (5.1.0-1195-g72308fe16), debug build
> Libraries:
> wxWidgets 3.0.4
> libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.6.5 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.1
> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 18.6.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
> Build Info:
> wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
> Boost: 1.69.0
> OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
> Curl: 7.54.0
> Compiler: Clang 9.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002
>
> Build settings:
> KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
> BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
> KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
> KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
> KICAD_SPICE=ON
>
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