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PODebugging a flash stack overflow
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copied!<p>I have a swf that is being loaded by a third party swf. I have source code and recompile my swf, but don't have code to the third party swf.</p> <p>Somewhere, likely in my code, there's a stack overflow. In a debug flash player, I get a nice popup dialog with a stack trace when the overflow occurs:</p> <pre><code>Error: Error #1023: Stack overflow occurred. at Object$/Object::_hasOwnProperty() at Object/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::hasOwnProperty() at Object$/Object::_hasOwnProperty() at Object/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::hasOwnProperty() at Object$/Object::_hasOwnProperty() </code></pre> <p>It goes on like this for 64 lines. However, it looks like I'm only seeing the last 64 stack frames, not the whole stack trace.</p> <p>Is there a way to see the full stack trace? As an alternative, is there a way to limit the stack depth?</p> <p>I've spent a full day trying to debug this, but am running on very little information, and a lack of tools. Here's what I've tried:</p> <ul> <li>Hooking my code up to a debugger. This is in flash 9.0.28 running in windows inside a VM, connecting to flex builder running outside the VM. It appears to connect, but I don't get trace statements, and breakpoints don't fire.</li> <li>Sending log lines to an http server. This works, but I suspect I'm missing the last n stack frames before the overflow/server crash.</li> <li>A blind, binary search type approach disabling portions of code - this is slow, but probably will work.</li> </ul> <p>Any other strategies I should be trying?</p>

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