[Qt-interest] Regarding the post mortem debugger option

[Martin Hofius]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2010 schrieb Patric:
>   I see. I'm not familiar with these symbol tables and et cetera, but I
> understand that I do not need the source of the application in order to
> debug.
i think that it is difficult to debug a program without understanding the 
internal structure of it. And how can I understand internal structure and 
float without sources or even symbols? Ok, you may have comprehensive 
documentation of the internals of your program?

Martin
> Regards,
> Patric
>
> On 26.8.2010 г. 11:06, Martin Hofius wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2010 schrieb Patric:
> >>    Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> I was wondering what means the "Post mortem debugging". It appears in
> >> the beginning when installing qt creator.
> >>
> >> I found out that this means that when some application crash the creator
> >> will appear in order to debug it.
> >> However, I can image this happening when we have the sources. But will
> >> it change anything if, for example, any other program crash ? Can we see
> >> some additional information in qt creator about it ?
> >
> > if this programs has symbol table in an appropriate format the debugger
> > may show a disassembled code listinng with symbols - otherwise it will
> > show a disassembled listing with numeric address lables.
> >
> > Martin
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