[webkit-dev] Terminate handler for WebKit

[Anders Carlsson]

On macOS and iOS, we already get this by setting NSApplicationCrashOnExceptions in our initialize function.

- Anders

> On Sep 9, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The GTK+ port currently has an interesting web process crash on exit:
> 
> pure virtual method called
> terminate called without an active exception
> 
> I found the easiest way to debug it was to rebuild with a terminate
> handler set:
> 
>     std::set_terminate([] {
>         CRASH();
>     });
> 
> Even if such issues are very rare, I think it makes sense to set this
> up always, since a simple backtrace is a lot better than nothing in
> such cases. Are there any objections to always setting this terminate
> handler? For my debugging today, I put it in
> WebKit::ChildProcess::initialize, which seems like a decent place, but
> maybe not the best place. Are there any other suggestions for where to
> put this code? I presume this would be desired for all ports, but we
> could certainly do it somewhere platform-specific if that's not the
> case.
> 
> Michael
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