I am doing crash fixing in an OS X application. The crash report shows
Date/Time: 2012-05-01 16:05:58.004 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000545f5f00
Crashed Thread: 8
Thread 8 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x140e0850 ebx: 0x00060fc8 ecx: 0x92df0ec0 edx: 0xc0000003
edi: 0x545f5f00 esi: 0x140e0870 ebp: 0xb0445988 esp: 0xb0445964
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010206 eip: 0x92dca68c cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x545f5f00
How to tares the application code with this report?
What is Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit)?
Take a look at Apple's Technical Notes on CrashReporter here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2004/tn2123.html
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x942cea07 ecx: 0xbfffed1c edx: 0x94b3a8e6
edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xbfffed58 esp: 0xbfffed1c
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010206 eip: 0x00000000 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000000
For Intel-based computers running 32-bit code, you should consider the following points:
Focus on two values: eip and the exception address (described earlier).
eip is the program counter at the time that the exception occurred. That is, it's the address of the instruction that caused the exception. For most non-memory access exceptions (for example, EXC_ARITHMETIC/EXC_I386_DIV caused by an integer division by zero), this is the key value.
For memory access exceptions:
If eip is equal to the exception address, the exception was caused by fetching instructions. Typically this means:
you've called a bogus function pointer (or, equivalently, called a method on a bogus object)
you've returned to a bad address which, in turn, means that you've corrupted the stack
If eip is not equal to the exception address, the exception was caused by a memory access instruction (in terms of C, this means that you're dereferencing an invalid pointer).