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In-depth: More adventures in failing to crash properly

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Valve's Bruce Dawson continues to look at how to "create more stable software through crashing vigorously," this time looking at failures to terminate and record a crash dump.] In last week’s episode, we discussed how 32-bit processes on 64-bit Windows might corrupt the exception state after a crash, and how any processes on 64-bit Windows might actually continue running after a crash. Serious stuff. This week’s installment of “Failing …


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