clayborg added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D49579#1170099, @markmentovai wrote:

> This has got to be padding.
>
> Breakpad’s structure definitions don’t nail down alignment as they probably 
> should. A 32-bit system writing an MDRawMemoryList will write what’s 
> intended, but a 64-bit one will need to insert four bytes of padding after 
> number_of_memory_ranges to make sure that the array elements that follow are 
> aligned.
>
> Oops.
>
> Microsoft’s own structure definitions don’t have this problem, and neither do 
> Crashpad’s (example 
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/crashpad/crashpad/+/20e5aba1aff797bae2e01b08d4099006ab068b77/compat/non_win/dbghelp.h#56>).
>
> I think it’d be preferable to fix Breakpad to not write bogus minidumps. It’s 
> absolutely wrong, and other code will have interoperability problems too.
>
> Greg, if we fix Breakpad, will you still need this for old dumps, or are you 
> OK wiping the slate clean?


We have years of minidumps that already have this issue so it must work 
unfortunately.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D49579



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