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"incompatible with data - nil" problem

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Hi, there:
   When I am running Spectre, I got "*Error* fprintf/sprintf: format spec. incompatible with data - nil"
   How can i get rid of it?

Thanks


Originally posted in cdnusers.org by julian2007

  • Unfortunately it could be virtually anything.

    It essentially indicates an untrapped error condition - what's happening is that somewhere in the code it's doing something like:

    printf("blah %s blah\n" myVar)

    and myVar is nil rather than a string as expected. Since fprintf/printf/sprintf is used all over the place, it could happen any time a call to any of these functions happens with an argument that doesn't match the expected type - probably because something unexpected went wrong. This could be in some custom code or in the Cadence code - it could be anywhere.

    To narrow it down a bit, perhaps you could enter in the CIW:

    _stacktrace=20
    tracelevel=20
    tracelength=20

    and then reproduce the problem - and post the lines around problem from your CDS.log file - including what you were doing at the time, and all the stacktrace, etc...

    Probably best to deal with this through customer support really, but I can try to help you here too.

    Regards,

    Andrew.


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by adbeckett

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