Re: Documentation on how to read crash reports

2016-07-20 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > > Do we have documentation on how to read crash reports? I've finished a first pass at documentation on understanding individual crash reports. The bulk of the effort was in writing this new page: https://developer.mozill

Re: Documentation on how to read crash reports

2016-06-03 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Thu, May 26, 2016, at 02:41 PM, Benoit Girard wrote: > - Crash address can give you a hint as to what's going on: 0x0 -> null > crash, 0x8 -> null offset accessing a member like this->mFoo, N.B.: due to the way addressing works on x86-64, if the crash address is "0x0" for a Linux/OS X crash rep

Re: Documentation on how to read crash reports

2016-06-03 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Thu, May 26, 2016, at 09:52 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Debugging/Debugging_a_minidump I spent some time today cleaning this page up a bit. I streamlined the Windows section (since you no longer need to manually download the matching binaries

Re: Documentation on how to read crash reports

2016-05-26 Thread Benoit Girard
en-US/docs/Mozilla/Debugging/Debugging_a_minidump > > --BDS > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Nicholas Nethercote < > n.netherc...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Do we have documentation on how to read crash reports? The only thing > >

Re: Documentation on how to read crash reports

2016-05-26 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
gging/Debugging_a_minidump --BDS On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > Hi, > > Do we have documentation on how to read crash reports? The only thing > I have found is this page: > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/helping-crashes > > which is not bad, but is la

Re: Documentation on how to read crash reports

2016-05-25 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
, so I filed bug 1275799. On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > Hi, > > Do we have documentation on how to read crash reports? The only thing > I have found is this page: > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/helping-crashes > > which is not

Documentation on how to read crash reports

2016-05-24 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
Hi, Do we have documentation on how to read crash reports? The only thing I have found is this page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/helping-crashes which is not bad, but is lacking some details. I suspect there is quite a bit of crash report interpretation wisdom that is in various