On Tuesday 07 December 2010, George Kiagiadakis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote: > > 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. > > That's the real issue. The server would need to hold all the debug > symbols from all the kde binaries of all the kde versions of all the > possible distributions (and variants of them; for example, 2 gentoo > users building with different USE flags may have two kde versions that > are binary incompatible with each other). This simply doesn't scale. > You could however have a tool that could enable distros to do this, even if it makes no sense from a purely KDE POV
`Allan
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