Re: [boost] Any interest for stack_trace?

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-20 13:54:42

Neal Becker wrote:
> We discussed a couple of years back code to do tracebacks that did not
> require instrumenting, which IMO is much more interesting.
> 
> On linux/glibc, there is a function 'backtrace' that can help (libc manual,
> sec 33.1).  We did talk about some code.  Discussion bogged down on
> demangling symbols.  At the time, the demangling code was not free (IIRC),
> but I think that is no longer a problem.

A stacktrace is helpful even without the demangling. In the worst case, 
one would have to run c++filt manually, which isn't that bad in a 
debugging scenario.

Regards,
m