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QuestionRelease Build, Symbols, Debugging Unreproducable Crashes. Pin
Mike Doner26-Jun-08 9:35
Mike Doner26-Jun-08 9:35 
Hi all,

I've done quite a bit of reading over the last few days with regards to analyzing application crash dumps etc. I've got a customer who occasionally gets an application crash that we're unable to reproduce here. The code looks fine, we have no idea whats going on. From what I'm reading, I can have the customer send me the crash dump fro Dr. Watson, then open it up to see where the FAULT is. Understood, no problems so far. As a test, I compiled the code in release, included symbols, forced a crash and was able to see where the fault was.

My question more or less revolves around the SYMBOLS which tell you where the functions are located in the code, (PDB files). When you release a new version of your software, do you always BUILD these symbol files as part of the release configuration and tuck them away until you need them??

Our current process just bulids a simple RELEASE configuration with no map exports & no symbol building.

Questions:

1) Do you build symbols/maps with your software during the RELEASE compile?

2) Is there any disadvantage to ALWAYS creating these files during the RELEASE compile? Is anything else included in the .EXE/DLLs which may assist in the wrong people trying to debug your application?

3) I'm assuming the version of the .exe and the .pdb have to be from the same compile, correct?

Bottom line, what should I be doing as part of my RELEASE configuration to take full advantage of symbols/crash dumps etc.

Sorry, I'm a little green here with this stuff... anything you can contribute would be greatly appreciated.

Mke.
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