Hardware debugging presentation

What is a panic?

•A panic is a Symbian term used to denote an unexpected exit of a thread

…A thread is the unit of execution on Symbian OS

…Processes must have at least one thread to begin executing code

•A panic denotes a serious coding error.

…Either by the caller of a function which has violated an API contract (e.g calling a function with invalid paramaters)

…or that a object or memory structure has moved into a bad internal state causing an Invariant

•Panics are helpful

… They aim to inform you about the exact nature of the problem during development