Backtrace Dumps

Robert Shearman rob at codeweavers.com
Wed Aug 18 14:03:53 CDT 2004


Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>Andreas Mohr <andi at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> writes:
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>>I'm sure every semi-involved Wine developer can imagine dozens of
>>"reasons of the day" why winedbg doesn't launch properly on error again...
>>Failure in wine exception handling code, failure to look up winedbg
>>(both registry and disk), failure to pass winedbg cmdline parameters properly,
>>failure to get winedbg started up properly, failure to get winedbg to
>>parse the current modules and stack frame properly, ...
>>    
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>Well, I can also imagine a lot of cases where the in-process backtrace
>won't work right, the main one being that since the code will never be
>used unless you want a backtrace, when you try to use it you'll
>realize that it no longer works, or doesn't even compile anymore. If
>we call the debugger instead, it will use the standard backtrace code
>which is always compiled in, and regularly used by a lot of people.
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>

Do you want me to write a unit test that uses it then?

Rob





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