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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer
From:       Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-12-07 21:35:04
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2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>:
> On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:53:57 Benoit Jacob wrote:
>> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira <thiago@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

Benoit

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