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> The Windows NT 3.1 CD comes with the full set of debugging symbols Props to Microsoft for doing this. Also, for providing symbol servers which allow a debugg
by js2 6y ago
> The Windows NT 3.1 CD comes with the full set of debugging symbols
Props to Microsoft for doing this. Also, for providing symbol servers which allow a debugger to pull down symbols remotely, over the network.
One part of my job is helping developers debug mobile application crashes on both iOS and Android. Fortunately, Apple makes iOS debugging symbols available (not as conveniently as they could, but you can get them). This at least allows for properly symbolized backtraces.
Android however is the bane of my mobile application debugging existence. There's no hope of getting debugging systems for any version of Android not built by Google. You can kinda sorta get something useful for Nexus devices by pulling down the Nexus images and extracting public symbols from the libraries on those images. Still not as good a full debugging symbols, but better than nothing.
Sadly, Google doesn't make available the debugging symbols for WebView, which is where I see a lot of crashes. Not being able to symbolize the stack traces makes it almost impossible to diagnose the cause.