[Merkaartor] Crash reports

[Chris Browet]

Well... I guess all the exception niceness of Java and .NET is one
explanation of why I personally find them heavy and abominable resource
consumers.
However, there are exceptions in C++, but I don't think Qt is using them due
to the overhead.

If you experience crashes, running a debug build helps, of course,.. I don't
think exceptions should be a replacement for a bug-free program.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Yves Goergen <nospam.list at unclassified.de>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have just loaded a few GPX tracks, background imagery and a bit of OSM
> data and have done and uploaded some changes, as all of a sudden
> Merkaartor crashed down under my fingers. I have panned the map in the
> very moment before, but a few seconds went past between my last
> interaction and the crash notification window.
>
> I have started the debugger (Visual Studio 2005), but it could only tell
> me that an access violation occured (which seems to be the case > 99% of
> the time) and that no symbols could be loaded (true, it's a Release
> build). The disassembly didn't look helpful to me, neither did the
> incomplete call stack list that only consisted of module names.
>
> This is of course an unsatisfactory situation. The app crashed and
> there's no indication about why. There's a severe bug somewhere in the
> code and it cannot be found. And this isn't the first time Merkaartor
> crashed. It doesn't happen often, but every time is once too much. Isn't
> there a solution to this? Can't there be a decent exception handling
> like for example in .NET, where I can add global exception handling code
> to my application that saves a stack trace and a detailed error message
> into a file so that a developer can review it? Mozilla also uses such a
> crash report tool in their products. On Linux there's core dumps, but I
> don't know what use they have. Maybe this is a major drawback of C/C++
> that things actually can break down miserably at all, which is
> impossible by design in a managed runtime environment? I'm a bit out of
> C stuff so I don't know what possible solutions are available today.
>
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