{"id":10006,"date":"2022-06-21T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T09:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.rdkcentral.com\/documentation\/documentation\/documentation\/rdk_video_documentation\/components\/open-sourced_components\/breakpad_wrapper\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T05:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:18:35","slug":"breakpad_wrapper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/developer.rdkcentral.com\/documentation\/documentation\/rdk_video_documentation\/components\/breakpad_wrapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakpad Wrapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n<p>Breakpad consists of a library and tool suite &ndash;<\/p>\n<p>Library is linked with the&nbsp; application to record crashes in&nbsp;compact &#8220;minidump&#8221; file<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>libbreakpad_client.a<\/strong> (<em>breakpad<\/em><em> client: <\/em>that writes minidump)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tools are used in the server (or in a system where debugging is&nbsp;&nbsp; performed) to produce C and C++ stack traces.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>dump_syms<\/strong> (<em>symbol dumper: <\/em>to extract the debug symbols for a given library\/binary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>minidump_stackwalk<\/strong> (<em>minidump<\/em><em> processor<\/em>: uses the minidump and the symbols created by dump_syms to produce stack trace)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading wp-main-header\">Breakpad C Wrapper<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Breakpad wrapper acts as a&nbsp;<span>wrapper to integrate Google Breakpad with RDK components.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/09\/breakpad.drawio.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Purpose of this component is to avoid static linking of the library&nbsp;(libbreakpad_client.a)&nbsp;across different modules. Includes the static library (<em>libbreakpad_client.a<\/em>) so that we can use dynamic library (<em>libbreakpadwrapper.so<\/em>) along with the native code <a href=\"https:\/\/code.rdkcentral.com\/r\/rdk\/components\/generic\/breakpad_wrapper\" class=\"external-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/code.rdkcentral.com\/r\/rdk\/components\/generic\/breakpad_wrapper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Breakpad exception handler writes minidump to disk at exception time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code panel pdl conf-macro output-block\" data-hasbody=\"true\" data-macro-name=\"code\">\n<div class=\"codeContent panelContent pdl\">\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\">void breakpad_ExceptionHandler()\n\n{\n\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; printf(\"tttt ********ENTER breakpad_ExceptionHandler****************** n\");\n\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; static google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler* excHandler = NULL;\n\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;excHandler = new&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler(google_breakpad::MinidumpDescriptor(\"\/opt\/minidumps\"), NULL, breakpadDumpCallback, NULL, true, -1);\n\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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