Re: [boost] [Backtrace] Any interest in portable stack trace?

Subject: Re: [boost] [Backtrace] Any interest in portable stack trace?
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-20 17:44:54

On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Artyom wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> Is there any interest in getting portable stack trace to boost - get
> something similar to Java's printStackTrace.
> 
> Basics:
> 
>  1. Getting stack trace of return pointers
>  2. Converting this pointers to human readable trace 
> 
> Extras:
> 
>  1. Create exception classes that capture stack trace on throw (only pointers)
>  2. Print a trace on catch
> 
> Supported Platforms: 
>   Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows >= XP using MSVC.
> 
> Tested on:
> 
>   Linux x86_64, GCC,
>   Linux x86, GCC
>   Linux x86_64, Intel
>   Windows XP 32bit, MSVC 2008

Yes!
Please coordinate with Emil Dotchevski to enable stack traces be attached to boost::exception objects.

-- Marshall