On 11/20/06, David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Your best bet is to contact authors for a debug version of their plugin. Then you can send the minidump back to them once the debug version crashes. There's no copyright/IP issues involved with this - I am fairly sure that Microsoft does not embed symbol names like GCC does, instead it points to the local .PDB file of the developer.Another thing you can do - is if you have a full version of Visual Studio - is run the actual application inside the debugger. When it crashes, there is an option on the Debug menu to dump the entire memory image of srcds to a debug dump file. This can be infinitely more helpful, as a good developer can, at the very least, find the crash in the assembly and locate its code position in their release build. Going by a minidump alone can be very difficult as without an image of memory it's harder to cross-reference memory address and the stack. Hope that helps (from a developer perspective), ~dvander http://www.bailopan.net/
David: Thanks for the quality information. I suspected as much but figured it was worth asking the experts. Thanks again. :) -- Alex _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
