Category Archives: Debugging

Everything Old is New Again, and a Compiler Bug

Posted on September 16, 2016 by

“What’s an EXCEPTION_FLT_STACK_CHECK exception?” one of my coworkers said. I said “It’s a weird and rare crash. Why do you ask?” It turns out that one of these weird and rare crashes had started showing up in Chrome (M54 branch, … Continue reading →

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Thread Naming in Windows: Time for Something Better

Posted on October 26, 2015 by

Windows lets you give names to the threads in your process which can then be displayed by debuggers. This is a great idea, but the implementation is showing its age – it’s time for some fixes, or something better. Update, … Continue reading →

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