crashanalysercmd/UI/Graphical/bin/Debug/Readme.txt
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Crash Analyser (c) 2008 Symbian Ltd
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Written by Alex.Wilbur@symbian.com
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Portions of this tool are copyright (c) their respective owners. 
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See SupportingLibraries.txt for further information.
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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This tool requires the MicroSoft .NET v2.0 RunTime.
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You can download this from MicroSoft's website:
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en
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- Various mobile crash related fixes
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- Minor tweaks to internal stack walking algorithms
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- Implemented new stack walking algorithm, which can accurately decode function calls
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  providing that a core rom image is supplied. The tool uses the arm instructions
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  in conjunction with symbol data in order to accurately walk the function call 
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  chain. Thanks to TomG for the implementation details!
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- Totally re-wrote the symbolic configuration editor - you no longer have to supply
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  core/rofs symbol files specifically. The tool will work out which is which.
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- Added better XREF integration into the call stack viewer.
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- Fixed some bugs in the symbol engine relating to labels overriding function addresses
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- Fixed some bugs in the ROFS symbol engine that had crept in since 0.30
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- Fixed a bug in raw stack data that resulted in dynamic codesegments not being correctly identified
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- More standards compliant Core Dump support.
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- Added early version of NICD viewer
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- Bug fixes to engines
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- Added support for new MC fields up to version 9 of the file format
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- GUI fixes
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- added SymbianWizardLib
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- extended SymbianZipLib
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- updated sharpziplib to latest version
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- escape key no longer closes wizard
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- added support for new mobile crash fields
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- work around mobile crash sometimes capturing the wrong stack
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- prevent zip files from containing zero-length symbol files
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- better handling of exception types for D_EXC and MobileCrash files (CoreDump was okay)
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- fixed some cosmetic UI issues
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- better detection and handling of corrupt mobile crash files
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- close core dump file handles after parsing is complete
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- include offset information in register tooltips and clipboard operations
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- save as zip feature for mobile crash files no longer includes 'tmp' files
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- added better CPSR viewer
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- fix for ELF core dump exception info (it was previously missing)
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- put a work around in for a core dump string defect
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- fix for string table note problem with ELF core dump
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- better IOP with mobile crash, and some mobile crash-specific bug fixes
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- bug fixes
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- save symbols now only saves used symbol info
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- fixed a bug relating to loading of ROFS symbol file symbols
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- exception when parsing some symbol files (timing related)
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- fixed mobile crash "extra information" inability to load XPTable dll