[thelist] NN 4.78 chokes on page

Jackson Yee jyee at vt.edu
Tue Jul 16 13:23:01 CDT 2002


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From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 21:16
Subject: RE: [thelist] NN 4.78 chokes on page


> jackson,
>
> what exactly are you using that's giving you this sort of view into what the
> browser is doing?

A debugger called "Dr. Mingw" available at

http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/

which is named after the classic Borland debugger "Dr. Watson."

It won't be useful in cases where the application relies heavily on COM, as
Internet Explorer does, or applications where the debug symbols have been
stripped from the executable.  Since Netscape 4.x apparently doesn't fit into
either one of these categories though, I was able to get a stack trace showing
me that netscape.exe crashed on a function called lo_tableEnd(), which I
interpreted as the function to render the end of a table, hence my previous
comment.

It's a great tool if you happen to program in Windows using C++ like I do, but
if you've never written a windows program before and you're unfamilar with how
a compiler operates, I would suggest developing your web designer skills
rather than looking into this as a better use of your time.  Feel free to
download it if it'll amuse you though.

Regards,
Jackson Yee
jyee at vt.edu
http://www.jacksonyee.com/




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