Remix + Ganache - Cannot call one contract from another

Question

I have an innocent looking contracts that work painlessly in Remix. Test contract can easily call Another if I use JavaScript VM in Remix.

I also have ganache-cli running on port 7454. If I connect Remix to ganache-cli, each of these contracts work well individually. But I cant call Another from Test. Remix console says transact to Test.send errored: VM Exception while processing transaction: revert

My contracts look like:

pragma solidity 0.4.25;

contract Another {
    uint public balance;
    function sendToAnother() public {
        balance += 10;
    }
}

contract Test {
    function send(address another) public {
        Another(another).sendToAnother();
    }
}

One suspicion I have is - am I picking up the address of the Another contract correctly? I am copying it from Remix's Deployed Contracts tab.

Edit: Odd enough, it works well on Ropsten Test Network! Could it have to do something with running out of gas. Unlikely, since remix shows around 100 Ether on the account.

Submitted a Bug to Ganache trufflesuite/ganache-core

Answer 1

This looks like a bug to me.

I was able to find a solution, but this only works if you call sendToAnother() from Another first, and then call it from Test.

pragma solidity 0.4.25;

contract Another {
    uint public balance;
    function sendToAnother() public returns (bool success) {
        balance += 10;
        return true;
    }
}

contract Test {
    function send(address another) public {
        Another(another).sendToAnother();
    }
}

Even though this solution works, I'm not 100% clear as to why it worked for the Javascript VM and not for Ganache. It looks like while using Remix, Ganache is searching for a return first, thus the immediate revert being thrown. My guess is it's a bug, but would love to hear some more ideas/theories if anyone has them.