Re: [ros-kernel] More useful stack traces

[Royce M. I. <ro...@ev...>]

Is there any problem with using loadros with the new symbols?

How do you configure ReactOS for debugging? Is it the same as removing
NDEBUG from the source files?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Casper Hornstrup" <ch...@us...>
To: <rea...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 8:18 AM
Subject: [ros-kernel] More useful stack traces


> I have just committed a patch that enables ReactOS to understand .stabs
> symbols (only line number, function names, and source file names though,
> but this is enough to get useful stack traces when not using a
> debugger). When ReactOS is configured for debugging, ReactOS will try to
> load symbols for every module it loads. E.g. if ReactOS loads ndis.sys,
> it will also load \SystemRoot\symbols\ndis.sym if this file exists. The
> .sym files generated by ReactOS dating before today are text files. The
> new .sym files are binary files extracted by the tools/rsym build
> utility from the non-stripped module image. If you have old .sym text
> files in your ReactOS installation, you had better remove them on your
> next update or expect trouble.
>
> Symbol files for user-mode modules are shared across processes and
> cached, so the performance degration of using the symbol files is not
> significant.
>
> A new FreeLoader is not required, but necesarry if you want to get
> useful stack traces for modules passed by FreeLoader.
>
> I have made a new FreeLoader snapshot available at:
>
> http://reactos.wox.org/download.php?id=24
>
> and sources are available here:
>
> http://reactos.wox.org/download.php?id=25
>
> Happy bug-hunting to you all ;-)
>
> Casper
>
>
>
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