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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, 22058@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22058: 25.1.50; emacs_backtrace.txt
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:22:44 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2273d74b-f30c-4c39-97b5-6e10ecff581f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83k2ozmq6m.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > > Such a stack trace offers nothing actionable.
> >
> > Is there a simple way for me to recognize that, from the
> > backtrace?
> 
> A good rule of thumb is: if the backtrace includes this pair of lines:
> 
> > Exception 0xc0000005 at this address:
> > 774374f6
> 
> and if the address starts with 7, then we will not be able to convert
> it to any meaningful address in the Emacs application code.  (The
> exception code does not need to be 0xc0000005, although it usually
> is.)

Excellent.  Wish I'd have known that long ago.  How about mentioning
this in (emacs) `Crashing'?

Or perhaps the code that creates the emacs_backtrace.txt file could
just print a message in such a case, saying that no useful backtrace
file could be created?





       reply	other threads:[~2015-11-30 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<f774949d-8945-4c73-a5e8-ed26c511c3bf@default>
     [not found] ` <<m2d1ur36r0.fsf@newartisans.com>
     [not found]   ` <<929593b8-ad63-4b4a-9587-1eef6e821cc6@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83k2ozmq6m.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-11-30 16:22       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-11-30 17:48         ` bug#22058: 25.1.50; emacs_backtrace.txt Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<m2wpszuwtw.fsf@newartisans.com>
     [not found]       ` <<CAAeL0SRkN+PJF+Kn6DPi0mYcx_HnFNdLnY6fgGjSbX30d1sxEg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <<m2lh9esxns.fsf@newartisans.com>
     [not found]           ` <<3505c131-e8ab-4f86-8828-b378bc9dac47@default>
     [not found]             ` <<222e11d1-95f0-4ade-8f86-18f034eabb1e@default>
     [not found]               ` <<83h9k2kwsa.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-12-01 16:11                 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-01 16:22                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                 ` <<32860321-e9f0-4057-9e4a-b2be4aa5dc82@default>
     [not found]                   ` <<8337vmkul2.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-12-01 16:56                     ` Drew Adams
2015-12-01 18:45                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-29 23:37 Drew Adams
2015-11-30 14:24 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-30 15:10   ` Drew Adams
2015-11-30 16:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-30 19:11     ` John Wiegley
2015-11-30 19:31       ` Drew Adams
2015-11-30 21:13       ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-12-01  2:36         ` John Wiegley
2015-12-01  3:51           ` Drew Adams
2015-12-01  6:17             ` Drew Adams
2015-12-01 15:34               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-01 15:26             ` Eli Zaretskii

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