stack trace addr2line

Caolan McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Wed Apr 4 18:58:55 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:57 -0700, David L wrote:
> I played with a f7-test3 live CD for a few minutes and had the power
> statistics app crash.  Bug buddy allowed me to send a bug report to
> the gnome folks which they said was more or less useless in this case
> because there were no debugging symbols.  They asked me to get a stack
> trace with debugging symbols, but I think the automatic bug reporting
> process should be fixed to allow developers to get useful stack traces
> without having users jump through hoops.
> 
> Does Fedora have a way to turn a stack trace from an app in a release
> into useful debugging info for the developer?

Well, I have a home-brewed solution for mapping the OOo stripped
backtraces (in the format you get in the crash dialog) back to the
source lines...
http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/ooocvs/ooomapstack

C.




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