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

Subject: Re: [boost] [Backtrace] Any interest in portable stack trace?
From: Rob Riggs (rob_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-22 10:26:33

  On 10/21/2010 06:40 AM, Artyom wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>> One recommendation, decide early on  limitations.
>>
>> I recommend to choose from the beginning:
>> - whether it  should work in asynchronous interrupts such as signal handlers,
>> - whether it  should work when the program is unstable, such as memory fault
>> handlers,  and
>> - how good a performance to expect.
> Very Good idea:
>
> Limitations of use:
>
> 1. No it is not asynchronous interrupts safe
> 2. It would not likely work when the application is unstable or as serious
> issues
> 3. The trace collection is expected to be very fast (as walking on linked list)
> 4. The trace printing may be quite slow and costly, expected to be used quite
> rarely.

Will the trace printing function use information provided by debuginfo 
packages on Linux?

Rob