1555917 - Remove more dead code from the exception handler and cleanup the client and minidump analyzer

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, enhancement)

Description

[Gabriele Svelto [:gsvelto]]

The exception handler code still contains a fair amount of useless stuff including:

• The mechanism used to serialize all the crash annotations in a single string
• Unused character-conversion functions
• Overly complicated functions for opening files

This should be cleaned up in preparation for bug 1420363.

Comment 1

[Gabriele Svelto [:gsvelto]]

Attachment: Bug 1555917 - Exception handler and crash reporter client cleanup

This patch includes multiple changes cleaning up various aspects of the crash
reporter client and exception handler:

• Some Unix-specific code was moved out from the base crashreporter client
  code and into the appropriate platform implementation
• Functions used to open files in the crashreporter client now accept C++
  std::ios flags instead of unreadable booleans
• Useless character conversion routines were removed from the
  minidump-analyzer
• Crash annotations are not serialized into a huge string anymore every time
  they change. They are all written out individually during an exception.
• WriteEscapedMozCrashReason() uses the exception-safe my_strlen() instead
  of plain strlen()
• The Windows-specific DLL-blocklist shutdown was removed from the Linux &
  macOS Breakpad callbacks
• The CrashReporterHost, CrashReporterClient and
  CrashReporterMetadataShmem classes now take nsACString references
  instead of nsCString ones since they never modify their contents

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/fa8fbc9069ea
Exception handler and crash reporter client cleanup r=froydnj

Comment 3

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fa8fbc9069ea