Re: [GD-General] C# versus C++ for game engines

[Thatcher U. <tu...@tu...>]

On Feb 20, 2003 at 10:37 -0800, Colin Fahey wrote:
> 
> One thing I really like about C# is the crash tracing for release
> builds.  Creating a similar feature in C++ is VERY platform
> dependent, and I think you need to generate a *.PDB file with all of
> your symbols, along with the DbgHlp.dll.

You need to keep some symbols around to pull up the crash report in
the debugger, but you don't have to distribute them.  Bruce Dawson
wrote a little article in Game Developer a few years ago, about crash
tracing for release builds of C++ apps.  I borrowed the code, and here
it is in Soul Ride's CVS:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/soulride/soulride/src/exceptionhandler.hpp?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

It's Windows-specific (but then so is .NET -- not sure why you say
platform-dependence is a disadvantage of stack-unwinding).  Basically
when you get a crash report from a user, you load up the old symbols
in MSVC, punch the EIP value into the registers window, and you're
looking at the crash site.

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