Programming and animation

Minidump for VisualStudio and GCC

What is a minidump? Now, if the client application was launched from the debugger, then when an error occurs, the debugger would show a stopping place in the code and it would be possible to see variable values at the time of the crash. So minidump snapshot, with which you can do the same, but without running the debugger. The client runs your application, and from crashing minidump, you can determine where is the place of failure.

But the way of creation this minidumps differ in VisualStudio and GCC.

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