From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: docs for symify
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:34:48 +0200
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gunno wrote:
> 
> My silly question

It wasn't a silly question.

> was about if the stack dumps in these crash message boxes
> could be used to something useful, similar to what symify can do.

Not really, because when such a message pops, it really means that the
problem was inside Windows (usually inside VMM, the Virtual Machine
Manager).  So the info presented there points into Windows' own guts, not
into the DJGPP program.  It is impossible to interpret that info without
sources of Windows, and even if you had the sources, it would be very hard to
make the connection between the problem inside VMM and the original bug in
the DJGPP program.

And sometimes the message that pops doesn't even tell anything close to a
stack dump.