The ModuleList stream consists of an integer giving the number of
entries in the list, followed by the list itself. Each entry in the list
describes a module (dynamically loaded objects which were loaded in the
process when it crashed (or when the minidump was generated).
The code for reading the list is relatively straight-forward, with a
single gotcha. Some minidump writers are emitting padding after the
"count" field in order to align the subsequent list on 8 byte boundary
(this depends on how their ModuleList type was defined and the native
alignment of various types on their platform). Fortunately, the minidump
format contains enough redundancy (in the form of the stream length
field in the stream directory), which allows us to detect this situation
and correct it.
This patch just adds the ability to parse the stream. Code for
conversion to/from yaml will come in a follow-up patch.
I wonder whether it would be worth a new class of errors for minidump files? After all, invalid_section_index feels a bit forced for a format without sections!