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Integrating Crash Reporting into Your Application - A Beginners Tutorial

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This article shows how to use CrashRpt error reporting library with an MFC application
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#pragma once

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "dbghelp.h"
#include <map>
#include <vector>

// Describes a loaded module
struct MdmpModule
{
    ULONG64 m_uBaseAddr;   // Base address
    ULONG64 m_uImageSize;  // Size of module
    CString m_sModuleName; // Module name  
    CString m_sImageName;  // The image name. The name may or may not contain a full path. 
    CString m_sLoadedImageName; // The full path and file name of the file from which symbols were loaded. 
    CString m_sLoadedPdbName;   // The full path and file name of the .pdb file.     
    BOOL m_bImageUnmatched;     // If TRUE than there wasn't matching binary found.
    BOOL m_bPdbUnmatched;       // If TRUE than there wasn't matching PDB file found.
    BOOL m_bNoSymbolInfo;       // If TRUE than no symbols were generated for this module.
    VS_FIXEDFILEINFO* m_pVersionInfo; // Version info for module.
};

// Describes a stack frame
struct MdmpStackFrame
{
    MdmpStackFrame()
    {
        m_nModuleRowID = -1;
        m_dw64OffsInSymbol = 0;
        m_nSrcLineNumber = -1;
    }

    DWORD64 m_dwAddrPCOffset; 
    int m_nModuleRowID;         // ROWID of the record in CPR_MDMP_MODULES table.
    CString m_sSymbolName;      // Name of symbol
    DWORD64 m_dw64OffsInSymbol; // Offset in symbol
    CString m_sSrcFileName;     // Name of source file
    int m_nSrcLineNumber;       // Line number in the source file
};

// Describes a thread
struct MdmpThread
{
    MdmpThread()
    {
        m_dwThreadId = 0;
        m_pThreadContext = NULL;
        m_bStackWalk = FALSE;
    }

    DWORD m_dwThreadId;        // Thread ID.
    CONTEXT* m_pThreadContext; // Thread context
    BOOL m_bStackWalk;         // Was stack trace retrieved for this thread?
    CString m_sStackTraceMD5;
    std::vector<MdmpStackFrame> m_StackTrace; // Stack trace for this thread.
};

// Describes a memory range
struct MdmpMemRange
{
    ULONG64 m_u64StartOfMemoryRange; // Starting address
    ULONG32 m_uDataSize;             // Size of data
    LPVOID m_pStartPtr;              // Pointer to the memrange data stored in minidump
};

// Minidump data
struct MdmpData
{   
    MdmpData()
    {
        m_hProcess = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
        m_uProcessorArchitecture = 0;
        m_uchProductType = 0;
        m_ulVerMajor = 0;
        m_ulVerMinor = 0;
        m_ulVerBuild = 0;    
        m_uExceptionCode = 0;
        m_uExceptionAddress = 0;
        m_uExceptionThreadId = 0;
        m_pExceptionThreadContext = NULL;
    }

    HANDLE m_hProcess; // Process ID

    USHORT m_uProcessorArchitecture; // CPU architecture
    UCHAR  m_uchNumberOfProcessors;  // Number of processors
    UCHAR  m_uchProductType;         // Type of machine (workstation, server, ...)
    ULONG  m_ulVerMajor;             // OS major version number
    ULONG  m_ulVerMinor;             // OS minor version number
    ULONG  m_ulVerBuild;             // OS build number
    CString m_sCSDVer;               // The latest service pack installed

    ULONG32 m_uExceptionCode;        // Structured exception's code
    ULONG64 m_uExceptionAddress;     // Exception address
    ULONG32 m_uExceptionThreadId;    // Exceptions thread ID 
    CONTEXT* m_pExceptionThreadContext; // Thread context

    std::vector<MdmpThread> m_Threads;       // The list of threads.
    std::map<DWORD, size_t> m_ThreadIndex;   // <thread_id, thread_entry_index> pairs
    std::vector<MdmpModule> m_Modules;       // The list of loaded modules.
    std::map<DWORD64, size_t> m_ModuleIndex; // <base_addr, module_entry_index> pairs
    std::vector<MdmpMemRange> m_MemRanges;   // The list of memory ranges.  
    std::vector<CString> m_LoadLog; // Load log
};

// Class for opening minidumps
class CMiniDumpReader
{
public:

    /* Construction/destruction */
    CMiniDumpReader();
    ~CMiniDumpReader();

    /* Operations */

    // Opens a minidump (DMP) file
    int Open(CString sFileName, CString sSymSearchPath);

    // Retreives stack trace for specified thread ID
    int StackWalk(DWORD dwThreadId);  

    // Closes the opened minidump file
    void Close();

    BOOL CheckDbgHelpApiVersion();

    int GetModuleRowIdByBaseAddr(DWORD64 dwBaseAddr);
    int GetModuleRowIdByAddress(DWORD64 dwAddress);
    int GetThreadRowIdByThreadId(DWORD dwThreadId);

    MdmpData m_DumpData; // Minidump data

    BOOL m_bLoaded;               // Is minidump loaded?
    BOOL m_bReadSysInfoStream;    // Was system info stream read?
    BOOL m_bReadExceptionStream;  // Was exception stream read?
    BOOL m_bReadModuleListStream; // Was module list stream read?
    BOOL m_bReadMemoryListStream; // Was memory list stream read?
    BOOL m_bReadThreadListStream; // Was thread list stream read?  

private:

    /* Internally used member functions */

    // Helper function which extracts a UNICODE string from the minidump
    CString GetMinidumpString(LPVOID pStartAddr, RVA rva);

    // Reads MINIDUMP_SYSTEM_INFO stream
    int ReadSysInfoStream();

    // Reads MINIDUMP_EXCEPTION_STREAM stream
    int ReadExceptionStream();

    // Reads MINIDUMP_MODULE_LIST stream
    int ReadModuleListStream();

    // Reads MINIDUMP_MEMORY_LIST stream
    int ReadMemoryListStream();

    // Reads MINIDUMP_THREAD_LIST stream
    int ReadThreadListStream();

    /* Member variables */

    CString m_sFileName;    // Minidump file name.
    CString m_sSymSearchPath; // The list of symbol search dirs passed.
    HANDLE m_hFileMiniDump; // Handle to opened .DMP file
    HANDLE m_hFileMapping;  // Handle to memory mapping object
    LPVOID m_pMiniDumpStartPtr; // Pointer to the biginning of memory-mapped minidump  

};

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I am a software developer currently living in Tomsk, Russia. I received a PhD degree in Computer Science from Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2010. I have been professionally developing C/C++ and PHP software since 2005. I like contributing to open-source and writing programming articles for popular web resources, like CodeProject. Besides writing, I love skiing and watching Formula-1.

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