Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of MacBacktrace


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Mar 25, 2008, 6:10:31 PM (16 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 all versions of BOINC and its library 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.