7.11 Other Issues

This section contains a number of issues not yet touched upon.

7.11.1 The BETART environment variable

The BETART environment variable is described in BETART. It may be used to control the behavior of a BETA program in several ways. To set BETART for a BETA program being debugged without affecting Valhalla ^[3], set the BETART environment variable either through the Valhalla command line option ENVIRONMENT, or using the Environment Editor.

7.11.2 Tracing garbage collections

If you wish to trace the garbage collection in the debugged process, you can do this by setting the BETART environment variable for the debugged process. See [MIA 99-36].

7.11.3 Known bugs and inconveniences

• In some cases (especially on SUN 4) the stack view does not display the full runtime stack, forgetting a number of entries. Likewise, the stack view may get confused if the debugged process is stopped while executing C code. This also has implications for Valhalla when deciding where a runtime error occurred, and might result in the wrong place being pointed out.
• When a complex attribute has been detailed, the scrolllist implementing the view may enter an "auto-scroll" mode. Click some attribute to switch off this mode.