IMVU’s CallStack API Now Open Source (super useful if you ship software on windows)

http://aegisknight.org/2009/04/imvus-callstack-api-now-open-source/

by eries • 17 years ago

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eries• 17 years ago

If you haven't seen Chad's excellent series on how to capture all the different ways a process can terminate on windows, I highly recommend the previous installments:

http://aegisknight.org/2009/04/imvu-crash-reporting-plugging...

http://aegisknight.org/2009/03/crash-reporting-in-imvu-last-...

http://aegisknight.org/2009/02/reporting-crashes-in-imvu-c-c...

http://aegisknight.org/2009/02/reporting-crashes-in-imvu-cal...

This is some advanced mojo. I think it's a huge lost opportunity to ship internet-enabled software but not have it report back on exactly what went wrong when it crashes.

jey• 17 years ago

Analogous thing on Linux: http://tombarta.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/c-stack-traces-with...

But all this is all moot for production code since there's Google Breakpad: http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/

buggy_code• 17 years ago

I don't get it.

Instead of "Let's get C++ easier to debug"

why not:

"Let's only write performance intense parts in C++", and have the rest in an interpreted scripting language, where things like this (and more) come much cheaper?

simonw• 17 years ago

They might well be going for "Let's only write performance intense parts in C++, and make those bits easier to debug"

chadaustin• 17 years ago

Bingo. Most of our application is Python, but all of the 3D stuff is in C++.

IMVU’s CallStack API Now Open Source (super useful if you ship software on windows)

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