On Tuesday 07 December 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: > 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org>: > > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:53:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org>: > >> > How are you going to properly find the stack without debug symbols? > >> > > >> > Imagine one frame that didn't keep the frame pointer properly? > >> > >> If the stack is damaged, then indeed I can't do anything; but that's > >> not the case in a vast majority of crashes. > > > > Who said anything about damaged? > > > > The stack can be safe, but require debugging information to find where the > > previous frame pointer was saved in the frame. > > > > Anyway, we need to know which version and build of each and every library in > > each and every distribution shipping KDE. > > I admit not to understand precisely how Socorro handles this, its wiki > refers to a 'stackwalk server', > http://code.google.com/p/socorro/wiki/StackwalkServer
I implemented a socorro server and integrated breakpad in the desktop app I developed at Hyves. It was rather frightening, especially to maintain. And it seemed to only work with binaries you create and distribute yourself -- so fine for Windows and OSX, rather difficult for Linux. -- Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
