Closed Bug 484834 Opened 15 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Hook up Breakpad to the js shell

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
JavaScript Engine
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: gkw, Unassigned)

Details

It would be nice if we were able to hook Breakpad up to the js shell to get crash stacks across all platforms.
What's the use-case where breakpad would be better than a standard debugger?
Automated reporting from fuzzers and other test suites.
Seems to me that breakpad is a huge amount of overhead for this task: can we solve the problem with a little GDB/windbg scripting instead?
What sort of overhead?  I don't care about the size of the binary; I do care a lot about it working with minimal hassle and developer hours invested.
Having this fixed will also solve most of the issues in bug 715365, which are related to native symbols not being present or not being fully present on Windows / Linux / Mac.
Whiteboard: [fuzzblocker]
For fuzzing we're likely to go with bug 837969.
Whiteboard: [fuzzblocker]
This is no longer as important for now, because for fuzzing we will soon be hooking up to cdb.exe directly to get stacks.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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