Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of MacBacktrace


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Mar 25, 2008, 6:11:51 PM (17 years ago)
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    5 BOINC Manager, BOINC Client, and the BOINC library libboinc.a all generate debugging information in their respective stderr.txt files in the event of a crash, including a backtrace.  When running on Mac OS 10.3 or OS 10.4, the backtrace is generated correctly for BOINC and project applications using `libboinc.a` for all BOINC versions since 5.10.3.  However, BOINC versions earlier than 6.1.11 do not correctly dump a backtrace under Mac OS 10.5.
     5BOINC Manager, BOINC Client, and the BOINC library `libboinc.a` all generate debugging information in their respective stderr.txt files in the event of a crash, including a backtrace.  When running on Mac OS 10.3 or OS 10.4, the backtrace is generated correctly for BOINC and project applications using `libboinc.a` for all BOINC versions since 5.10.3.  However, BOINC versions earlier than 6.1.11 do not correctly dump a backtrace under Mac OS 10.5.
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    77Executables released for general distribution usually have had most of their symbols stripped, so the backtrace generated when there is a crash in the field will typically only have hex addresses with few if any symbols.