Re: [boost] Is there interest in a collection of call stack utilities?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is there interest in a collection of call stack utilities?
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-03 12:02:13

On 3/3/2013 6:56 AM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> On 03/03/13 10:54, Artyom Beilis wrote:
>> Generally it is very interesting topic and very useful stuff (from my
>> experience
>> in deploy with CppCMS).
>
> While it is interesting, I have not found it to be that useful in practice.
> The debugger already does all of this better that you could ever do
> yourself.
>
> It is probably a better idea to integrate your app with a debugger than
> to rewrite a debugger inside your app.

I believe there are valid uses for displaying a backtrace at points in 
the code where you do not want to have to stop the debugger simply to be 
able to visually view the backtrace ( as a call stack ). So I would look 
forward to a Boost cross-platform library which allowed a programmer to 
output the backtrace through code.