Comments on: The art of decoding backtraces without debug info http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/08/26/the-art-of-decoding-backtraces-without-debug-info/ Cool links and commentary Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:29:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Nikos Kouremenos http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/08/26/the-art-of-decoding-backtraces-without-debug-info/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Nikos Kouremenos Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/08/26/the-art-of-decoding-backtraces-without-debug-info/#comment-9 Great article. Thank you very much Great article. Thank you very much

]]> By: Norman Rasmussen http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/08/26/the-art-of-decoding-backtraces-without-debug-info/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Norman Rasmussen Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/08/26/the-art-of-decoding-backtraces-without-debug-info/#comment-10 I had this one recently:<p/>The first call inside a function fails, always... Turns out that this was a non static function, and the caller was trying to execute the method on a null object. For some reason the compiler decided to skip the null check before calling the method, and just launched straight into it. Only when the 'this' object was used for the first time in the function did it crash.<br/> I had this one recently:

The first call inside a function fails, always… Turns out that this was a non static function, and the caller was trying to execute the method on a null object. For some reason the compiler decided to skip the null check before calling the method, and just launched straight into it. Only when the ‘this’ object was used for the first time in the function did it crash.

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