@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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