Merge pull request #647 from ispyisail/feature-diagnostic-logging-crash

Add crash-time ring flush and diagnostics export UI (discussion #644, steps 4-5)

cmake/qet_compilation_vars.cmake

@@ -116,10 +116,14 @@ set(QET_RES_FILES
 set(QET_SRC_FILES
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/cli_export.cpp
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/cli_export.h
+  ${QET_DIR}/sources/logging/crashhandler.cpp
+  ${QET_DIR}/sources/logging/crashhandler.h
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/logging/logring.cpp
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/logging/logring.h
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/logging/qetlogger.cpp
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/logging/qetlogger.h
+  ${QET_DIR}/sources/logging/ui/diagnosticsreportdialog.cpp
+  ${QET_DIR}/sources/logging/ui/diagnosticsreportdialog.h
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/pdf_links.cpp
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/pdf_links.h
   ${QET_DIR}/sources/import/edz/edzarchive.cpp

qelectrotech.pro

@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ HEADERS += $$files(sources/*.h) \
            $$files(sources/svg/*.h) \
            $$files(sources/import/edz/*.h) \
            $$files(sources/import/edz/lzma/*.h) \
-           $$files(sources/logging/*.h)
+           $$files(sources/logging/*.h) \
+           $$files(sources/logging/ui/*.h)
 
 SOURCES += $$files(sources/*.cpp) \
            $$files(sources/editor/*.cpp) \
@@ -221,7 +222,8 @@ SOURCES += $$files(sources/*.cpp) \
            $$files(sources/svg/*.cpp) \
            $$files(sources/import/edz/*.cpp) \
            $$files(sources/import/edz/lzma/*.c) \
-           $$files(sources/logging/*.cpp)
+           $$files(sources/logging/*.cpp) \
+           $$files(sources/logging/ui/*.cpp)
 
 
 # Needed for use promote QTreeWidget in terminalstripeditor.ui

sources/logging/crashhandler.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+/*
+	Copyright 2006-2026 The QElectroTech Team
+	This file is part of QElectroTech.
+
+	QElectroTech is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+	the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+	(at your option) any later version.
+
+	QElectroTech is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+	GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+	along with QElectroTech.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+#include "crashhandler.h"
+
+#include "logring.h"
+#include "../qetversion.h"
+
+#include <QByteArray>
+#include <QSysInfo>
+#include <atomic>
+#include <cstring>
+
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <io.h>
+#include <share.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <windows.h>
+#else
+#include <cerrno>
+#include <csignal>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+
+namespace {
+
+// Everything the handler touches is preallocated here and filled in by
+// install() (normal context, runs once at startup) -- nothing under the
+// actual signal/exception path may allocate or touch QString/Qt.
+const LogRing *g_ring = nullptr;
+char g_dump_path[1024] = {};
+char g_header[1024] = {};
+int g_header_len = 0;
+
+// Guards against two threads crashing at once, or the handler itself
+// faulting while dumping: only the first crash writes a dump. See
+// crashhandler.h invariant 4.
+std::atomic<bool> g_already_dumped{false};
+
+#ifndef Q_OS_WIN
+
+// A stack-overflow SIGSEGV leaves no usable stack for a handler to run
+// on at all, hence the alternate signal stack (invariant: sized well
+// above any known SIGSTKSZ so this doesn't depend on
+// sysconf(_SC_SIGSTKSZ), which some libc versions require at runtime
+// rather than offering as a compile-time constant).
+char g_altstack[65536];
+
+const int kHandledSignals[] = {SIGSEGV, SIGABRT, SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL};
+
+void restoreDefaultAndReraise(int sig)
+{
+	struct sigaction sa {};
+	sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
+	sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
+	sa.sa_flags = 0;
+	sigaction(sig, &sa, nullptr);
+	raise(sig);
+}
+
+void signalHandler(int sig)
+{
+	if (g_already_dumped.exchange(true, std::memory_order_acq_rel)) {
+		// Not the first crash (concurrent fault on another thread, or
+		// this handler faulting while dumping): skip straight to
+		// restore-and-re-raise rather than risk a second, interleaved
+		// write to the same file.
+		restoreDefaultAndReraise(sig);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	// open/write/close are all on the POSIX async-signal-safe function
+	// list; nothing else is called here.
+	const int fd = ::open(g_dump_path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0600);
+	if (fd >= 0) {
+		if (g_header_len > 0) {
+			::write(fd, g_header, static_cast<size_t>(g_header_len));
+		}
+		if (g_ring) {
+			g_ring->dumpToFd(fd);
+		}
+		::close(fd);
+	}
+
+	restoreDefaultAndReraise(sig);
+}
+
+#else // Q_OS_WIN
+
+LONG WINAPI windowsExceptionFilter(EXCEPTION_POINTERS *)
+{
+	bool expected = false;
+	if (!g_already_dumped.compare_exchange_strong(expected, true, std::memory_order_acq_rel)) {
+		return EXCEPTION_CONTINUE_SEARCH;
+	}
+
+	int fd = -1;
+	errno_t err = _sopen_s(&fd, g_dump_path,
+				_O_WRONLY | _O_CREAT | _O_TRUNC | _O_BINARY,
+				_SH_DENYWR, _S_IREAD | _S_IWRITE);
+	if (err == 0 && fd >= 0) {
+		if (g_header_len > 0) {
+			_write(fd, g_header, g_header_len);
+		}
+		if (g_ring) {
+			g_ring->dumpToFd(fd);
+		}
+		_close(fd);
+	}
+
+	// Do not suppress Windows Error Reporting / an attached debugger --
+	// same invariant as re-raising on POSIX (see crashhandler.h,
+	// invariant 3).
+	return EXCEPTION_CONTINUE_SEARCH;
+}
+
+#endif
+
+} // namespace
+
+void CrashHandler::install(const LogRing *ring, const QString &dump_path)
+{
+	g_ring = ring;
+
+	const QByteArray path_utf8 = dump_path.toUtf8();
+	std::strncpy(g_dump_path, path_utf8.constData(), sizeof(g_dump_path) - 1);
+
+	const QByteArray header = QByteArray("QET crash dump\n")
+		+ "Version: " + QetVersion::displayedVersion().toUtf8() + "\n"
+		+ "Git: " GIT_COMMIT_SHA "\n"
+		+ "OS: " + QSysInfo::prettyProductName().toUtf8() + " (" + QSysInfo::currentCpuArchitecture().toUtf8() + ")\n"
+		+ "Qt: " QT_VERSION_STR "\n"
+		+ "---\n";
+	g_header_len = qMin<int>(header.size(), static_cast<int>(sizeof(g_header)) - 1);
+	std::memcpy(g_header, header.constData(), static_cast<size_t>(g_header_len));
+
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
+	SetUnhandledExceptionFilter(windowsExceptionFilter);
+#else
+	stack_t ss;
+	ss.ss_sp = g_altstack;
+	ss.ss_size = sizeof(g_altstack);
+	ss.ss_flags = 0;
+	sigaltstack(&ss, nullptr);
+
+	struct sigaction sa {};
+	sa.sa_handler = signalHandler;
+	sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
+	sa.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK;
+
+	for (int sig : kHandledSignals) {
+		sigaction(sig, &sa, nullptr);
+	}
+#endif
+}

sources/logging/crashhandler.h

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/*
+	Copyright 2006-2026 The QElectroTech Team
+	This file is part of QElectroTech.
+
+	QElectroTech is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+	the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+	(at your option) any later version.
+
+	QElectroTech is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+	GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+	along with QElectroTech.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+#ifndef CRASHHANDLER_H
+#define CRASHHANDLER_H
+
+#include <QString>
+
+class LogRing;
+
+/**
+	@brief The CrashHandler class
+	Discussion #644, step 4: on a fatal crash, flush the in-memory
+	LogRing to a fixed file before the process dies, so the last N log
+	lines leading up to the crash survive it -- today they only exist in
+	memory and are lost with the process.
+
+	This is the highest-risk piece of the whole logging rework (the
+	discussion's own words: "lands last, behind its own switch"), so its
+	invariants are worth restating plainly:
+
+	1. The handler must never block. It takes no locks -- LogRing itself
+	   is lock-free for exactly this reason (see logring.h). A handler
+	   that can hang is worse than no handler: it turns a clean crash
+	   (which at least produces a core dump) into a hung process that has
+	   to be force-killed, producing neither a core dump nor a ring dump.
+	2. The handler must never allocate. Under heap corruption -- a
+	   plausible *cause* of the very crash being handled -- malloc may
+	   itself deadlock or fault. Every buffer this code touches at crash
+	   time (the dump path, the header, the ring's own storage) is
+	   preallocated by install(), which runs once at startup in normal
+	   (non-signal) context.
+	3. The handler must not swallow the crash. After writing the dump it
+	   restores the default disposition for the signal and re-raises, so
+	   the OS still produces a core dump (POSIX) / Windows Error
+	   Reporting still sees the exception. A handler that "fixed" the
+	   crash by not re-raising would destroy the post-mortem evidence a
+	   core dump provides.
+	4. Only the *first* crash writes a dump. An atomic test-and-set
+	   guards against two threads faulting simultaneously (or the handler
+	   itself faulting while dumping) producing an interleaved or
+	   truncated file; every crash after the first goes straight to
+	   restore-and-re-raise.
+
+	Tested in this environment: POSIX/Linux only (sigaction, sigaltstack,
+	SIGSEGV/SIGABRT/SIGBUS/SIGFPE/SIGILL). The Windows path
+	(SetUnhandledExceptionFilter) and macOS-specific behaviour (signal
+	handling itself is POSIX and shares the Linux code path, but sandbox
+	profiles can affect where the dump file may be written) are
+	implemented per the discussion's guidance but could not be exercised
+	here -- there is no Windows or macOS build available in this sandbox.
+	Please sanity-check both before relying on them in the field.
+*/
+class CrashHandler
+{
+	public:
+		/// Installs the crash handler. Must be called from normal
+		/// (non-signal) startup code, after the LogRing it will dump
+		/// exists, and only once. `ring` must outlive the process (in
+		/// practice: the LogRing owned by QetLogger's function-local
+		/// static instance, which is never destroyed before exit).
+		/// `dump_path` is resolved and copied into a fixed-size internal
+		/// buffer here; nothing under the actual signal/exception path
+		/// touches QString.
+		static void install(const LogRing *ring, const QString &dump_path);
+
+	private:
+		CrashHandler() = delete;
+};
+
+#endif // CRASHHANDLER_H

sources/logging/logring.cpp

@@ -17,75 +17,136 @@
 */
 #include "logring.h"
 
-#include <algorithm>
 #include <cstring>
 
-/**
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
-	@brief LogRing::LogRing
+#include <io.h>
-	Preallocates all kCapacityEntries slots up front -- the only
+#else
-	allocation this class ever does.
+#include <cerrno>
-*/
+#include <unistd.h>
-LogRing::LogRing()
+#endif
-{
+
-	m_entries.resize(kCapacityEntries);
+static_assert(std::atomic<int>::is_always_lock_free,
-}
+	      "LogRing::Entry::length must be a lock-free atomic<int> -- "
+	      "dumpToFd() reads it from a signal handler and must never block.");
+
+namespace {
 
 /**
-	@brief LogRing::append
+	@brief writeAllSignalSafe
-	@param line one already-formatted log line (no further formatting
+	Loops until length bytes have been written to fd or an unrecoverable
-	is done here). Truncated to kEntryBytes - 1 bytes if longer, with a
+	error occurs. write(2) may write fewer bytes than requested and may
-	trailing marker, so the stored entry is always a complete,
+	return EINTR -- both are *more* likely from inside a signal handler
-	independently-readable line.
+	than in normal code, so a single write() call is not enough here.
+	Async-signal-safe: only calls write(2)/errno, nothing else.
 */
-void LogRing::append(const QByteArray &line)
+void writeAllSignalSafe(int fd, const char *data, int length) noexcept
+{
+	int remaining = length;
+	const char *p = data;
+
+	while (remaining > 0) {
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
+		const int n = _write(fd, p, static_cast<unsigned int>(remaining));
+		if (n <= 0) {
+			return;
+		}
+#else
+		const ssize_t n = ::write(fd, p, static_cast<size_t>(remaining));
+		if (n < 0) {
+			if (errno == EINTR) {
+				continue;
+			}
+			return; // unrecoverable -- give up silently, never block/throw
+		}
+		if (n == 0) {
+			return;
+		}
+#endif
+		p += n;
+		remaining -= static_cast<int>(n);
+	}
+}
+
+} // namespace
+
+LogRing::LogRing() :
+	// The sized constructor value-initialises each Entry in place; unlike
+	// resize(), it doesn't require Entry to be move/copy-constructible,
+	// which std::atomic<int> deliberately never is. The only allocation
+	// this class ever does.
+	m_entries(kCapacityEntries)
+{
+}
+
+void LogRing::append(const QByteArray &line) noexcept
 {
 	static const char kMarker[] = "...[ring-truncated]\n";
 	const int marker_len = static_cast<int>(sizeof(kMarker)) - 1;
 
-	QMutexLocker locker(&m_mutex);
+	const quint64 idx = m_write_cursor.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
+	Entry &slot = m_entries[static_cast<size_t>(idx % static_cast<quint64>(kCapacityEntries))];
 
-	Entry &slot = m_entries[static_cast<size_t>(m_next_index)];
+	// Zero the length first so a concurrent reader landing on this exact
+	// slot mid-copy sees "not ready" rather than the previous lap's
+	// (now-being-overwritten) content at a stale length.
+	slot.length.store(0, std::memory_order_relaxed);
 
+	int len;
 	if (line.size() < kEntryBytes) {
 		std::memcpy(slot.data, line.constData(), static_cast<size_t>(line.size()));
-		slot.length = line.size();
+		len = line.size();
 	} else {
 		const int keep = kEntryBytes - marker_len;
 		std::memcpy(slot.data, line.constData(), static_cast<size_t>(keep));
 		std::memcpy(slot.data + keep, kMarker, static_cast<size_t>(marker_len));
-		slot.length = kEntryBytes;
+		len = kEntryBytes;
 	}
 
-	m_next_index = (m_next_index + 1) % kCapacityEntries;
+	slot.length.store(len, std::memory_order_release);
-	if (m_count < kCapacityEntries) {
-		++m_count;
-	}
 }
 
-/**
-	@brief LogRing::snapshot
-	@return the entries currently held, oldest first. Safe to call from
-	normal (non-signal) code only.
-*/
 QVector<QByteArray> LogRing::snapshot() const
 {
-	QMutexLocker locker(&m_mutex);
+	const quint64 cursor = m_write_cursor.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
+	const quint64 cap = static_cast<quint64>(kCapacityEntries);
+	const quint64 count = (cursor < cap) ? cursor : cap;
+	const quint64 start = (cursor < cap) ? 0 : (cursor - cap);
 
 	QVector<QByteArray> result;
-	result.reserve(m_count);
+	result.reserve(static_cast<int>(count));
 
-	const int start = (m_count < kCapacityEntries) ? 0 : m_next_index;
+	for (quint64 i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
-	for (int i = 0; i < m_count; ++i) {
+		const Entry &slot = m_entries[static_cast<size_t>((start + i) % cap)];
-		const Entry &slot = m_entries[static_cast<size_t>((start + i) % kCapacityEntries)];
+		const int len = slot.length.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
-		result.append(QByteArray(slot.data, slot.length));
+		if (len > 0) {
+			result.append(QByteArray(slot.data, len));
+		}
 	}
 
 	return result;
 }
 
+void LogRing::dumpToFd(int fd) const noexcept
+{
+	const quint64 cursor = m_write_cursor.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
+	const quint64 cap = static_cast<quint64>(kCapacityEntries);
+	const quint64 count = (cursor < cap) ? cursor : cap;
+	const quint64 start = (cursor < cap) ? 0 : (cursor - cap);
+
+	for (quint64 i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
+		const Entry &slot = m_entries[static_cast<size_t>((start + i) % cap)];
+		const int len = slot.length.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
+		if (len > 0) {
+			writeAllSignalSafe(fd, slot.data, len);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 void LogRing::clear()
 {
-	QMutexLocker locker(&m_mutex);
+	m_write_cursor.store(0, std::memory_order_relaxed);
-	m_next_index = 0;
+	for (auto &entry : m_entries) {
-	m_count = 0;
+		entry.length.store(0, std::memory_order_relaxed);
+	}
 }

sources/logging/logring.h

@@ -19,31 +19,33 @@
 #define LOGRING_H
 
 #include <QByteArray>
-#include <QMutex>
 #include <QVector>
+#include <atomic>
 #include <vector>
 
 /**
 	@brief The LogRing class
 	Fixed-capacity, always-on in-memory ring of the most recent log
-	lines. Discussion #644 (step 3): the ring exists as forward-compatible
+	lines, preallocated once at construction -- append() never
-	infrastructure for a future crash-flush (step 4, not implemented
+	allocates.
-	here) as well as an on-demand "what just happened" snapshot, so its
-	entries are stored pre-formatted as plain bytes in storage
-	preallocated once at construction -- append() never allocates.
 
-	Entries are fixed-size slots rather than a byte-packed ring: with
+	Lock-free by construction, not just "thread-safe": step 4 (see
-	kCapacityEntries * kEntryBytes chosen to land exactly on the 2 MiB
+	crashhandler.h) reads this ring from inside a POSIX signal handler,
-	budget, this keeps wraparound trivial (whole-slot overwrite, so a
+	where taking any lock is unsafe -- if the crashing thread happens to
-	slot is always either fully the old entry or fully the new one --
+	be the one that already holds it (or any other thread does and never
-	no torn entries) at the cost of truncating any single line to
+	gets scheduled again), the handler hangs forever, and you lose both
-	kEntryBytes, independently of the logger's own (larger) per-message
+	the ring dump *and* the core dump. So there is no mutex here at all:
-	truncation.
+	append() claims a slot with a single atomic fetch-add, and
+	dumpToFd()/snapshot() read the preallocated entries directly.
 
-	Thread-safe via a plain QMutex. This is *not* the lock-free design
+	Accepted tradeoff: if dumpToFd() runs while another thread is
-	discussion #644 specifies for a signal-handler crash path (step 4)
+	mid-append into the exact slot being read (only possible in the
-	-- no signal handler is installed by this code, so nothing calls
+	crash-handler case, and only for at most one slot), that one entry
-	into the ring from inside a signal context.
+	may be read torn -- part old content, part new. Every other entry is
+	unaffected. This is deliberate: the alternative (a seqlock or similar
+	to detect and retry torn reads) adds real complexity for a window
+	that, per discussion #644, is not worth trading "the handler must
+	never block" against.
 */
 class LogRing
 {
@@ -54,24 +56,30 @@ class LogRing
 		LogRing();
 
 		/// Append one already-formatted, already-truncated log line.
-		/// Bytes beyond kEntryBytes - 1 are dropped with a truncation marker.
+		/// Bytes beyond kEntryBytes are dropped with a truncation marker.
-		void append(const QByteArray &line);
+		/// Never allocates, never blocks. Safe to call from any normal
+		/// (non-signal) thread concurrently.
+		void append(const QByteArray &line) noexcept;
 
-		/// Snapshot of the entries currently held, oldest first.
+		/// Snapshot of the entries currently held, oldest first. Normal
+		/// (non-signal) context only.
 		QVector<QByteArray> snapshot() const;
 
+		/// Async-signal-safe: writes every entry currently held to fd via
+		/// write(2) only -- no allocation, no Qt, no locks. May write a
+		/// torn entry under the rare race described above; never blocks.
+		void dumpToFd(int fd) const noexcept;
+
 		void clear();
 
 	private:
 		struct Entry {
-			char data[kEntryBytes] = {};
+			char data[kEntryBytes];
-			int length = 0;
+			std::atomic<int> length{0}; // 0 = not yet written this lap
 		};
 
-		mutable QMutex m_mutex;
 		std::vector<Entry> m_entries; // preallocated once, capacity fixed
-		int m_next_index = 0;
+		std::atomic<quint64> m_write_cursor{0}; // monotonically increasing
-		int m_count = 0;
 };
 
 #endif // LOGRING_H

sources/logging/qetlogger.cpp

@@ -17,11 +17,14 @@
 */
 #include "qetlogger.h"
 
+#include "crashhandler.h"
 #include "../qetapp.h"
+#include "../qetversion.h"
 
 #include <QDateTime>
 #include <QDir>
 #include <QFileInfo>
+#include <QSysInfo>
 #include <cstdio>
 
 namespace {
@@ -96,6 +99,24 @@ void QetLogger::init()
 	m_file_output_ok = ensureFileOpenLocked();
 }
 
+void QetLogger::installCrashHandler()
+{
+	if (m_disabled) {
+		return;
+	}
+	CrashHandler::install(&m_ring, crashDumpPath());
+}
+
+QString QetLogger::crashDumpPath() const
+{
+	return m_log_dir % QStringLiteral("/crash_dump.log");
+}
+
+QString QetLogger::currentLogFilePath() const
+{
+	return m_log_dir % QStringLiteral("/") % m_base_name % QStringLiteral(".log");
+}
+
 /**
 	@brief QetLogger::ensureFileOpenLocked
 	Caller must hold m_file_mutex. Opens the current session's log file
@@ -110,7 +131,7 @@ bool QetLogger::ensureFileOpenLocked()
 
 	QDir().mkpath(m_log_dir);
 
-	const QString path = m_log_dir % QStringLiteral("/") % m_base_name % QStringLiteral(".log");
+	const QString path = currentLogFilePath();
 
 	const QFileInfo info(path);
 	if (info.exists() && info.isSymLink()) {
@@ -143,7 +164,7 @@ void QetLogger::rotateLocked()
 {
 	m_file.close();
 
-	const QString base_path = m_log_dir % QStringLiteral("/") % m_base_name % QStringLiteral(".log");
+	const QString base_path = currentLogFilePath();
 
 	for (int i = kRotationKeep; i >= 1; --i) {
 		const QString from = (i == 1) ? base_path : rotatedPath(i - 1);
@@ -333,3 +354,78 @@ void QetLogger::pruneOldLogFiles(int days)
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// --- Step 5: getting the data back out ----------------------------------
+
+bool QetLogger::hasPendingCrashDump() const
+{
+	if (m_disabled) {
+		return false;
+	}
+	const QFileInfo info(crashDumpPath());
+	return info.exists() && info.isFile() && info.size() > 0;
+}
+
+QByteArray QetLogger::pendingCrashDumpContents() const
+{
+	QFile file(crashDumpPath());
+	if (!file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) {
+		return QByteArray();
+	}
+	return redact(file.readAll());
+}
+
+void QetLogger::clearPendingCrashDump()
+{
+	QFile::remove(crashDumpPath());
+}
+
+QByteArray QetLogger::buildDiagnosticsReport() const
+{
+	QByteArray header;
+	header += "QElectroTech diagnostics report\n";
+	header += "Generated: " % QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString(Qt::ISODate) % "\n";
+	header += "Version: " % QetVersion::displayedVersion() % "\n";
+	header += "Git: " GIT_COMMIT_SHA "\n";
+	header += "OS: " % QSysInfo::prettyProductName() % " (" % QSysInfo::currentCpuArchitecture() % ")\n";
+	header += "Qt: " QT_VERSION_STR "\n";
+	header += "---\n";
+
+	QByteArray body;
+	QFile file(currentLogFilePath());
+	if (file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) {
+		body = file.readAll();
+	} else {
+		// Fall back to the in-memory ring if the file itself can't be
+		// read (e.g. file output already failed this session).
+		for (const QByteArray &line : m_ring.snapshot()) {
+			body += line;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return redact(header + body);
+}
+
+/**
+	@brief QetLogger::redact
+	Replaces the user's home directory with "~" wherever it appears.
+	Applied before a crash dump or a diagnostics report is ever shown to
+	the user: both are destined to be attached to a public bug tracker,
+	and an absolute path under the home directory leaks the account name
+	(discussion #644's privacy section: "/home/laurent/... leaks a
+	username"). This is the one redaction implemented here; the
+	discussion's fancier "optionally redact project filenames too" is
+	not attempted -- reliably telling a project path apart from
+	arbitrary log text is a much fuzzier problem than a literal prefix
+	match against a known directory.
+*/
+QByteArray QetLogger::redact(const QByteArray &input)
+{
+	const QByteArray home = QDir::homePath().toUtf8();
+	if (home.isEmpty()) {
+		return input;
+	}
+	QByteArray out = input;
+	out.replace(home, QByteArrayLiteral("~"));
+	return out;
+}

sources/logging/qetlogger.h

@@ -48,11 +48,22 @@
 	- Step 3: every formatted line is also appended to an in-memory
 	  LogRing (see logring.h) -- always on, fixed capacity, allocation-
 	  free on the hot path.
+	- Step 4: installCrashHandler() wires the ring up to CrashHandler
+	  (see crashhandler.h), so a SIGSEGV/SIGABRT/SIGBUS/SIGFPE/SIGILL (or,
+	  on Windows, an unhandled structured exception) flushes the ring to
+	  a fixed crash-dump file before the process dies.
+	- Step 5: hasPendingCrashDump()/pendingCrashDumpContents()/
+	  clearPendingCrashDump() let startup code (see QETApp::checkBackupFiles())
+	  notice and offer an unretrieved crash dump from the *previous* run;
+	  buildDiagnosticsReport() is the equivalent for a manual "save a
+	  report right now" action on the *current*, still-running session.
+	  Both go through redact() before ever reaching the user, since both
+	  are destined for a public bug tracker.
 
-	Deliberately NOT included in this step (see discussion #644): no
+	Deliberately NOT included: log categories, a full session header
-	signal handler / crash-flush (step 4), no diagnostics export UI
+	beyond what the crash dump/report already carry, repeat collapsing,
-	(step 5), no log categories, no session header, no repeat collapsing
+	rate limiting. Those are listed in discussion #644 under "best
-	or rate limiting. Those are independent, separately-scoped follow-ups.
+	practices worth building in", not part of the numbered steps.
 
 	Escape hatch: if QET_LOG_DISABLE=1 is set in the environment at
 	init() time, this class does nothing beyond a minimal, independent
@@ -73,6 +84,11 @@ class QetLogger
 		/// session's log filename, and opens the file.
 		void init();
 
+		/// Step 4: installs the crash handler (see crashhandler.h). Must
+		/// be called after init() (the ring and the dump path must exist
+		/// first) and, like init(), only once.
+		void installCrashHandler();
+
 		/// The function installed via qInstallMessageHandler() forwards here.
 		void handleMessage(QtMsgType type, const QMessageLogContext &context, const QString &msg);
 
@@ -81,10 +97,37 @@ class QetLogger
 		/// file names.
 		void pruneOldLogFiles(int days);
 
-		/// Snapshot of the in-memory ring, oldest first. For future use
+		/// Snapshot of the in-memory ring, oldest first.
-		/// (e.g. a diagnostics export action) -- not wired to any UI here.
 		QVector<QByteArray> ringSnapshot() const {return m_ring.snapshot();}
 
+		// --- Step 5: getting the data back out -------------------------
+
+		/// True if a previous run's crash handler left an unretrieved
+		/// dump behind.
+		bool hasPendingCrashDump() const;
+
+		/// Raw contents of the pending crash dump, or an empty array if
+		/// there isn't one. Does not delete it -- call
+		/// clearPendingCrashDump() once it has been offered to the user.
+		QByteArray pendingCrashDumpContents() const;
+
+		/// Deletes the pending crash dump file. Call after the user has
+		/// been offered it (whether they chose to save it or not) so it
+		/// is never offered a second time.
+		void clearPendingCrashDump();
+
+		/// Builds a redacted diagnostics bundle from the *current* session
+		/// (header + this session's log file so far) for the manual
+		/// "Save report" action -- as opposed to pendingCrashDumpContents(),
+		/// which is about a *previous*, already-terminated session.
+		QByteArray buildDiagnosticsReport() const;
+
+		/// Replaces occurrences of the user's home directory with "~".
+		/// Applied to both the crash dump and buildDiagnosticsReport()
+		/// before they are ever shown to the user, since both are
+		/// destined for a public bug tracker.
+		static QByteArray redact(const QByteArray &input);
+
 	private:
 		QetLogger() = default;
 		QetLogger(const QetLogger &) = delete;
@@ -93,6 +136,8 @@ class QetLogger
 		void rotateLocked();
 		void writeToFile(const QByteArray &line, QtMsgType type);
 		QString rotatedPath(int index) const;
+		QString crashDumpPath() const;
+		QString currentLogFilePath() const;
 
 		static QByteArray sanitize(const QByteArray &input);
 		static QByteArray truncateMessage(const QByteArray &input, int max_bytes);

sources/logging/ui/diagnosticsreportdialog.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+/*
+	Copyright 2006-2026 The QElectroTech Team
+	This file is part of QElectroTech.
+
+	QElectroTech is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+	the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+	(at your option) any later version.
+
+	QElectroTech is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+	GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+	along with QElectroTech.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+#include "diagnosticsreportdialog.h"
+
+#include "../../qetmessagebox.h"
+
+#include <QDialogButtonBox>
+#include <QFile>
+#include <QFileDialog>
+#include <QFontDatabase>
+#include <QLabel>
+#include <QPlainTextEdit>
+#include <QPushButton>
+#include <QVBoxLayout>
+
+DiagnosticsReportDialog::DiagnosticsReportDialog(
+		const QString &title,
+		const QString &intro,
+		const QByteArray &content,
+		QWidget *parent) :
+	QDialog(parent)
+{
+	setWindowTitle(title);
+	resize(700, 500);
+
+	auto *layout = new QVBoxLayout(this);
+
+	auto *intro_label = new QLabel(intro, this);
+	intro_label->setWordWrap(true);
+	layout->addWidget(intro_label);
+
+	auto *preview = new QPlainTextEdit(this);
+	preview->setReadOnly(true);
+	preview->setLineWrapMode(QPlainTextEdit::NoWrap);
+	preview->setFont(QFontDatabase::systemFont(QFontDatabase::FixedFont));
+	preview->setPlainText(QString::fromUtf8(content));
+	layout->addWidget(preview);
+
+	auto *buttons = new QDialogButtonBox(this);
+	QPushButton *save_button = buttons->addButton(tr("Enregistrer..."), QDialogButtonBox::ActionRole);
+	buttons->addButton(QDialogButtonBox::Close);
+	connect(save_button, &QPushButton::clicked, this, &DiagnosticsReportDialog::saveToFile);
+	connect(buttons, &QDialogButtonBox::rejected, this, &QDialog::reject);
+	connect(buttons->button(QDialogButtonBox::Close), &QPushButton::clicked, this, &QDialog::accept);
+	layout->addWidget(buttons);
+
+	// Stash the content for saveToFile(); the preview widget already
+	// holds a QString copy but we save the original UTF-8 bytes to avoid
+	// any round-trip surprises.
+	setProperty("qet_report_content", content);
+}
+
+void DiagnosticsReportDialog::saveToFile()
+{
+	const QString path = QFileDialog::getSaveFileName(
+			this,
+			tr("Enregistrer le rapport de diagnostic"),
+			QStringLiteral("qet-diagnostic-report.txt"),
+			tr("Fichiers texte (*.txt);;Tous les fichiers (*)"));
+
+	if (path.isEmpty()) {
+		return;
+	}
+
+	QFile file(path);
+	if (!file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly)) {
+		QET::QetMessageBox::critical(
+				this,
+				tr("Erreur"),
+				tr("Impossible d'écrire dans le fichier « %1 ».").arg(path));
+		return;
+	}
+
+	file.write(property("qet_report_content").toByteArray());
+	file.close();
+}

sources/logging/ui/diagnosticsreportdialog.h

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+	Copyright 2006-2026 The QElectroTech Team
+	This file is part of QElectroTech.
+
+	QElectroTech is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+	the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+	(at your option) any later version.
+
+	QElectroTech is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+	GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+	along with QElectroTech.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+#ifndef DIAGNOSTICSREPORTDIALOG_H
+#define DIAGNOSTICSREPORTDIALOG_H
+
+#include <QDialog>
+
+/**
+	@brief The DiagnosticsReportDialog class
+	Discussion #644, step 5: "Show what's in it before saving -- the user
+	is about to attach this to a public tracker." Used for both the
+	after-a-crash offer (QETApp::checkBackupFiles()) and the manual
+	"Help > Diagnostics > Save report" action -- the only difference
+	between the two is the intro text and where the content comes from
+	(QetLogger::pendingCrashDumpContents() vs. buildDiagnosticsReport()).
+
+	The content passed in is expected to already be redacted
+	(QetLogger::redact()) -- this dialog just displays and optionally
+	saves whatever it's given.
+*/
+class DiagnosticsReportDialog : public QDialog
+{
+		Q_OBJECT
+
+	public:
+		explicit DiagnosticsReportDialog(
+				const QString &title,
+				const QString &intro,
+				const QByteArray &content,
+				QWidget *parent = nullptr);
+
+	private slots:
+		void saveToFile();
+};
+
+#endif // DIAGNOSTICSREPORTDIALOG_H

sources/main.cpp

@@ -152,6 +152,12 @@ QGuiApplication::setHighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy(QetSettings::hdpiScaleFacto
 	// went to stderr, which is invisible in a Windows GUI session.
 	QetLogger::instance().init();
 	qInstallMessageHandler(qetLogMessageHandler);
+	// Step 4 (discussion #644): flush the ring to a crash-dump file if
+	// the process dies from here on. Installed right after the ring
+	// exists (init() just constructed it) and as early as reasonably
+	// possible, so it also covers whatever runs between here and
+	// QETApp's own construction below.
+	QetLogger::instance().installCrashHandler();
 
 	SingleApplication app(argc, argv, true);
 #ifdef Q_OS_MACOS

sources/qetapp.cpp

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
 #include "machine_info.h"
 #include "TerminalStrip/ui/terminalstripeditorwindow.h"
 #include "qetversion.h"
+#include "logging/qetlogger.h"
+#include "logging/ui/diagnosticsreportdialog.h"
 
 #include <cstdlib>
 #include <iostream>
@@ -2575,6 +2577,10 @@ void QETApp::checkBackupFiles()
 	}
 
 	if (stale_files.isEmpty()) {
+		// Only offer an unretrieved crash dump when there's no project
+		// to recover this run -- discussion #644 step 5 is explicit
+		// that the two prompts must never both show at once.
+		checkCrashDump();
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -2628,6 +2634,53 @@ void QETApp::checkBackupFiles()
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+	@brief QETApp::checkCrashDump
+	Discussion #644, step 5: if the crash handler (step 4) left an
+	unretrieved dump from a previous run, offer it to the user. Only
+	called from checkBackupFiles() when there was no stale project file
+	to recover this run, so the two prompts never both show at once.
+*/
+void QETApp::checkCrashDump()
+{
+	QetLogger &logger = QetLogger::instance();
+	if (!logger.hasPendingCrashDump()) {
+		return;
+	}
+
+	const QByteArray content = logger.pendingCrashDumpContents();
+
+	DiagnosticsReportDialog dialog(
+			tr("Rapport de plantage"),
+			tr("QElectroTech ne s'est pas fermé correctement lors de sa dernière exécution.\n"
+			   "Voici les derniers messages enregistrés avant l'arrêt -- vous pouvez les "
+			   "enregistrer pour les joindre à un rapport de bug."),
+			content);
+	dialog.exec();
+
+	// Offered once, then marked retrieved -- regardless of whether the
+	// user chose to save it -- so it is never offered a second time.
+	logger.clearPendingCrashDump();
+}
+
+/**
+	@brief QETApp::showDiagnosticsReport
+	Discussion #644, step 5: the manual "Help > Diagnostics > Save
+	report" action. Unlike checkCrashDump(), this is about the *current*,
+	still-running session, not a previous one.
+*/
+void QETApp::showDiagnosticsReport()
+{
+	const QByteArray content = QetLogger::instance().buildDiagnosticsReport();
+
+	DiagnosticsReportDialog dialog(
+			tr("Rapport de diagnostic"),
+			tr("Ceci contient les derniers messages de journalisation de cette session. "
+			   "Vérifiez le contenu avant de le joindre à un rapport de bug public."),
+			content);
+	dialog.exec();
+}
+
 /**
 	@brief QETApp::fetchWindowStats
 	Updates the booleans concerning the state of the windows

sources/qetapp.h

@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ class QETApp : public QObject
 		void openTitleBlockTemplateFiles(const QStringList &);
 		void configureQET();
 		void aboutQET();
+		void showDiagnosticsReport();
 		void receiveMessage(int instanceId, QByteArray message);
 	
 	private:
@@ -287,6 +288,7 @@ class QETApp : public QObject
 		void initSystemTray();
 		void buildSystemTrayMenu();
 		void checkBackupFiles();
+		void checkCrashDump();
 		void fetchWindowStats(
 			const QList<QETDiagramEditor *> &,
 			const QList<QETElementEditor *> &,

sources/qetmainwindow.cpp

@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ void QETMainWindow::initCommonActions()
 	about_qt_ = new QAction(QET::Icons::QtLogo,  tr("À propos de &Qt"), this);
 	about_qt_ -> setStatusTip(tr("Affiche des informations sur la bibliothèque Qt", "status bar tip"));
 	connect(about_qt_, SIGNAL(triggered()), qApp, SLOT(aboutQt()));
+
+	diagnostics_action_ = new QAction(QET::Icons::DialogInformation, tr("Enregistrer un rapport de diagnostic..."), this);
+	diagnostics_action_ -> setStatusTip(tr("Génère un rapport avec les derniers messages de journalisation, pour l'inclure dans un rapport de bug", "status bar tip"));
+	connect(diagnostics_action_, &QAction::triggered, this, []() {
+		QETApp::instance()->showDiagnosticsReport();
+	});
 }
 
 /**
@@ -158,6 +164,8 @@ void QETMainWindow::initCommonMenus()
 	help_menu_ -> addAction(donate_);
 	help_menu_ -> addAction(about_qt_);
 	help_menu_ -> addAction(about_qet_);
+	help_menu_ -> addSeparator();
+	help_menu_ -> addAction(diagnostics_action_);
 
 #ifdef Q_OS_WIN32
 upgrade_ -> setVisible(true);

sources/qetmainwindow.h

@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ class QETMainWindow : public QMainWindow {
 	QAction *youtube_;                       ///< Launch browser on QElectroTech Youtube channel
 	QAction *upgrade_;                       ///< Launch browser on QElectroTech Windows Nightly builds
 	QAction *upgrade_M;                      ///< Launch browser on QElectroTech MAC_OS_X builds
-	QAction *donate_;                        ///< Launch browser to donate link 
+	QAction *donate_;                        ///< Launch browser to donate link
 	QAction *about_qt_;                      ///< launch the "About Qt" dialog
+	QAction *diagnostics_action_;            ///< Open the diagnostics report dialog (discussion #644, step 5)
 	QMenu *settings_menu_;                   ///< Settings menu
 	QMenu *help_menu_;                       ///< Help menu
 	QMenu *display_toolbars_;                ///< Show/hide toolbars/docks