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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Mozilla core dump with plugin
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In-Reply-To: Bill Huey's message of Wed, 20 Mar 2002 02:09:52 -0800
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> Just curious, what methodology did you use to track this down ?

"Reading the error messages".

It turned out that Mozilla was printing out a stack backtrace before
dying, which I didn't see at first because it was going to /dev/ttyv0
(I started mozilla from a twm menu).  It was fairly easy to track down
the function in question, and then it was just a matter of staring at
the code.

It would have been a lot quicker if I could work out how to rebuild
just the (very small) relevant parts of the JDK after making an edit,
rather than waiting while it does a bunch of Java compilations.

-- Richard

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