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Re: Crash Reporter lies. Was: Interpreting Call Stack…
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Re: Crash Reporter lies. Was: Interpreting Call Stack…


  • Subject: Re: Crash Reporter lies. Was: Interpreting Call Stack…
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:48:09 -0800

On Dec 26, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Jerry Krinock <email@hidden> wrote:

> Now, I've been symbolicating crash reports for years, but I do so when I see a line in a crash report like this:
>
> 8   MyFramework   0x000c5c49 0x7000 + 781385
>
> where you see the symbol name is missing.  The reason I did not think to symbolicate this time is because the symbol name was given:
>
> 8   MyFramework   0x000e9257 MyFunction + 102541
>
> But in fact Crash Reporter was *lying* to me when it said that address was in MyFunction.
>
> Is this not a bug in Crash Reporter?

Not at all. The symbol table in your stripped product doesn't state where symbols end. I take it the DWARF info does.

Moral of the story: always symbolic ate your crash reports before attempting to understand them (at least if they contain wacky offsets).

--Kyle Sluder_______________________________________________

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References: 
 >Interpreting Call Stack when Crash occurs in Inline Function (From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Interpreting Call Stack when Crash occurs in Inline Function (From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Crash Reporter lies. Was: Interpreting Call Stack… (From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>)

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