Closed Bug 96780 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

NSPR changes to make debugging better on Mac OS X

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(NSPR :: NSPR, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

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(Reporter: sfraser_bugs, Assigned: sfraser_bugs)

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Debugging using Pro 7 on Mac OS X works better if you send in the file name, rather than the disk name, as the 4th param to GetDiskFragment calls. With this change, I'm able to debug component libraries on X without having to rename all the files. Patch coming. I think we can make this change in Mac Classic too; this string shows up in the debugger, but is otherwise insignificant to CFM.
Attached patch macdll.c changes (deleted) — Splinter Review
I did something similar. I changed the function where the fragment name is fetched so there's one less call site to change and if something else is getting the fragment name for some reason, it will get the same answer. Actually, this should not be #ifdef'd for TARGET_CARBON but always done, even for Classic. The benefit is that, when a sym file is not loaded and you see the fragment name on the call stack, you know which file to open. Right now, we see something like WEB_DLL and that means nsWebBrowser.shlb. Who would know?
Your change worries me more, conrad. It won't work via calls to pr_Mac_LoadNamedFragment(), and returning the file name, rather than the fragment name, will mess up NSPR's library cache in pr_Mac_LoadIndexedFragment(), especially if start to use multi-fragment CFM containers. I did think of one side-effect of making this change; it would probably affect Talkback. I think we'd have to change the names of the .xSYM files that we supply for talkback, for XPCOM component libraries.
Just pointing out if the change is #ifdef TARGET_CARBON we don't need to worry about Talkback
Blocks: 102998
This went in with the Pro 7 landing.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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