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: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-03 13:12:24

On 03/03/13 15:20, Alexander Lamaison wrote:
> Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> On 03/03/13 13:14, Alexander Lamaison wrote:
>>
>>> Surely the idea is to get back-traces from deployed software?  You can't
>>> use your debugger there.
>>
>> Just get the core dump and import it in your debugger.
>
>  From my users?  I'm not sure many of them know how to do this.  Hell, I
> don't even know how to do this.
>
> In any case, aren't they only produced if a program crashes?  What I
> often need is the backtrace when my program has caught an exception and
> shown users an error message.

How do you think errors are reported with software like Firefox?