[gs-devel] Crash reporting links

[Ralph Giles]

At the staff meeting last week, we briefly discussed crash report 
generation. The basic idea was to print a C stack trace on crash
to make it easier to fill out meaningful bug reports and save us
an analysis step.

I looked at how the GNOME project's bug-buddy works. Basically, a
signal handler in one of the platform libraries runs gdb on the
application to generate a backtrace.

Because signal handling is platform specific, I think the way to 
implement this is just to hook in some code from the respective 
gp_init() calls, rather than try to write a gp_print_backtrace().

Another interesting projet is google breakpad, which attempts to
do stack trace generation on Windows, MacOS and linux without
recourse to a coincidentally-installed debugger.

  http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/

FWIW,
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