Closed Bug 532490 Opened 15 years ago Closed 5 years ago

provide C++ API to write minidump and exit application

Categories

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Crash Reporting
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: ted, Unassigned)

Details

We should provide a CrashReporter API to write a minidump (preferably with some assertion info, like a message, file and line number) and exit the application. This could be used to implement NS_RUNTIME_ABORT internally, so that we could use this in production code and get crash reports from it.

We currently have an API that's usable if you have an EXCEPTION_POINTERS on Windows, but it'd be nice to have something that worked on all platforms and didn't require an existing exception.
As discussed on IRC, I don't think we necessarily should expose this API to the world, but should just hook it up to the existing NS_DebugBreak(NS_DEBUG_ABORT), which even has a scriptable version.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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