I was using Lazarus to create a console application for parsing out data from a network speed test program.
In this case I used the Lazarus new project dialogue and specified a console application with all the defaults.
This creates an application framework including command line parameter parsing, which is good. I use the cl to pass file names (input and output).
My problem is this:
I went to the section in DoRun where it states:
{ add your program here }
This is exatly what I did. The code parses out a report file and extracts the valid data, then writes it out to a file (append at end of that file) using TStringList.SaveToFile.
This all works fine so far, but when this is done the code gets to the predefined statement:
// stop program loop
Terminate;And here I am getting an exception:
External: SIGSEGV
If I comment out Terminate then the program never ends....
Is this specific to Ubuntu Linux or is it some error in my coding that causes this?
I am using two objects in the DoRun, one TStringList and one object i created for parsing the data. Both are created and then freed in a try-finally construct before the Terminate call.
All is fine up until this spot, the file is parsed and the result is written, yet I get the exception.
Can someone please explain this?