[tor-bugs] #10186 [Tor]: Backtrace support for windows

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#10186: Backtrace support for windows
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     Reporter:  nickm        |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  needs_revision
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
    Component:  Tor          |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  tor-client windows
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 We could to create optional minidump on crash and then user could to
 process them locally using standalone parser. Something like that does
 Mozilla for Firefox with [https://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/
 breakpad] and [https://github.com/mozilla/socorro socorro] (it's not
 possible to use as ready to use local tool, however).
 Yet another [http://blog.morlad.at/blah/mingw_postmortem possible
 solutions], we could to generate PDB file from debug information created
 by GCC. Then ship it with bundles. It can help to produce more usefull
 report with standard Windows' functions, even with FPO(?).

 Stack trace doesn't contains private information, while dumping something
 from memory can to leak unpredictable stuff.
 Dump can to provide more information for debugging in general, while stack
 trace not enough for some cases.

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