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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas,

Is there some reason you did not use wxDebugReport[1]?  This would hide
the platform dependent issues and make for much cleaner code.

Cheers,

Wayne

[1]: https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_debug_report.html

On 9/19/2018 12:38 PM, Thomas Pointhuber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote some basic crash-handler based on signal handler code published
> on the mailinglist some time ago:
> 
> * https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg27148.html
> 
> For now, it uses the glibc backtrace function to print a basic
> stack-trace onto the console, and if possible a crash dump file in the
> current working directory.
> 
> Unfortunately printing pretty stack-traces is not easy, which means at
> the moment users need to manually prettify them when required. To do
> this the tools addr2line and c++filt can be used to find the actual
> location of the crash.
> 
> Nevertheless, it is better than nothing at all. And it could be
> especially helpful to find rare crashes which are hard to reproduce.
> 
> Regards, Thomas
> 
> 
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