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

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

On Feb 20, 2003 at 06:45 -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
> [...]
> > 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
> [...]
> 
> > It's Windows-specific (but then so is .NET -- not sure why you say
> > platform-dependence is a disadvantage of stack-unwinding). [...]
> 
> If you have the Mono version of the .NET API under Linux, then
> you can enjoy the same stack unwinding.
> 
> Also, if you can get your .NET application to run under Windows 98
> (something I haven't determined yet), then you enjoy the same
> stack unwinding there, too.  Whereas the DbgHlp.dll is a little bit 
> messed up under Windows 98.

Could be, although I was using Win98 back when I stole that
exceptionhandler code, and it seemed to work OK.  I don't remember any
details though...

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