[Wine] What constitutes a good backtrace?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Fri Mar 7 21:17:01 CST 2008


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>  For Dan - one other issue came up so I thought I'd bring it here
>  before I did the new Wine build. Please keep in mind that this machine
>  is a Gentoo 64-bit machine and Wine, compiled as a 32-bit app, is
>  running over the top some 32-bit emulation libraries.

Not emulation libraries.  They're plain old 32 bit libraries.

Building 32 bit wine on a 64 bit system is annoying.
I wouldn't bother unless you're quite motivated.

> Those libraries,
>  as compiled, aren't going to provide any backtrace data. Will this
>  make any difference or is all we are concerned with is how Wine is
>  working internally?

No problem.  We don't need symbols there.

Why is it that people run 64 bit operating systems on their
desktops?  99% of them would be happier with 32 bit OS's.
Shrug.
- Dan



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