Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47594 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 57801 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2010 08:53:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Mar 2010 08:53:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=johannes@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=johannes@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 83.243.58.134 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: johannes@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 83.243.58.134 mailout2.netbeat.de Linux 2.6 Received: from [83.243.58.134] ([83.243.58.134:42980] helo=mailout2.netbeat.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 10/78-14605-9942BAB4 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:53:48 -0500 Received: (qmail 17375 invoked by uid 89); 25 Mar 2010 08:49:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.28?) (postmaster%schlueters.de@93.104.50.115) by mailout2.netbeat.de with ESMTPA; 25 Mar 2010 08:49:15 -0000 X-Originator: 9e51b244e0a38413ab6a9876e36ba9df To: Thomas Hruska Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <4BAB0190.8090103@cubiclesoft.com> References: <4BAB0190.8090103@cubiclesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: php.net Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:53:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1269507195.1737.2.camel@guybrush> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] How to trace a crash bug? From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=) Hi, On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 23:24 -0700, Thomas Hruska wrote: > PHP 5.2.13 on Windows XP SP3 w/ Apache (PHP as a module) is crashing for > me. I've tried to create a simple test case to reproduce but I'm not > able to. Any hints/tips or a guide on how to debug this would be highly > appreciated. I'm not adverse to debuggers and I have VS2008 > Professional on this machine. On http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace-win32.php are instructions to create a stacktrace of the crash which might give a first indication where to look. The other thing is to try hard to really drop each and every line from your code which isn't needed to reproduce the crash. Yes that can be annoying. johannes