Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:12721 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80968 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Sep 2004 20:38:19 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 74503 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2004 20:35:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO duplo.phpwebhosting.com) (66.132.170.61) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 10 Sep 2004 20:35:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 7816 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2004 20:35:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.2.78?) (65.200.4.130) by duplo2.phpwebhosting.com with SMTP; 10 Sep 2004 20:35:48 -0000 Message-ID: <41421024.4090606@ganx4.com> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:35:48 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nuno Lopes CC: Wez Furlong , Derick Rethans , Daniel Convissor , PHP Internals List References: <20040905193319.91641.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040905223229.41761.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20040906231133.06501800@localhost> <20040907091235.5283.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <413E02BF.4080604@ganx4.com> <4e89b42604090911107681e23c@mail.gmail.com> <20040909181734.GA4464@panix.com> <4e89b42604091001195cafa47d@mail.gmail.com> <008e01c49713$ce34dc00$0100a8c0@pc07653> In-Reply-To: <008e01c49713$ce34dc00$0100a8c0@pc07653> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Really odd PHP problem... different platform From: dietrich@ganx4.com (Dietrich Ayala) Looks like Dr Watson won't help our specific problem: "Dr. Watson cannot create a snapshot if the program does not respond (hangs)." From "How to Troubleshoot Program Faults with Dr. Watson": http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q275481 However, we do experience php.exe crashes at times, and it looks like we may be able to get a minidump in those instances using Dr. Watson. Nuno Lopes wrote: >> We need to: >> - provide a debug build with symbols (could be generated daily to >> reduce load on Edin's snap box) > > > This would great! (I had already suggested that). I don't have the MS > compiler, just cygwin, and sometimes I get an error with the snap > binnary and then I can't reproduce it with the cygwin build. So, it > would be a great help. > > >> - find out exactly how to get Dr. Watson (or whatever) to drop dumps >> for applications > > > I'll investigate this. > >> - otherwise suggest that they install a debugger. Installing dev tools >> under win tends to destabilize the system, so its something to avoid >> for production machines; Debugging Tools for Windows is much better >> for this than VC++/VS.Net, and is also free. >> >> --Wez. > >