Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> writes:
On 03/03/13 15:20, Alexander Lamaison wrote:
Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> writes:
On 03/03/13 13:14, Alexander Lamaison wrote:
Surely the idea is to get back-traces from deployed software? You can't use your debugger there.
Just get the core dump and import it in your debugger.
From my users? I'm not sure many of them know how to do this. Hell, I don't even know how to do this.
In any case, aren't they only produced if a program crashes? What I often need is the backtrace when my program has caught an exception and shown users an error message.
How do you think errors are reported with software like Firefox?
Firefox only reports crashes, not arbitrary errors. I've no idea how it does it (Google have a library you can use to add the same functionality to your own project) but that's not the use-case where Artyom's code would be useful. Instead, his code is used to get source information for errors that occur during normal program operation. Core dumps (crashes) should be a vanishingly rare event in deployed software, but errors happen as part of normal program behaviour. When the cause of the error is a bug in the software rather than user error or environment, it would be invaluable if the user could provide a back-trace as part of their bug report. Alex -- Swish - Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org)