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: Adam Romanek (romanek.adam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-04 02:01:46

On 03/03/2013 12:56 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
>
> 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.

There are many situations where that is not the right approach.

One of them is web-servers and web-frameworks running arbitrary 
applications. Once such an application throws an uncaught exception then 
its stack trace with some other application state can be sent via e-mail 
to the application admins. I've seen that in practice and it's been very 
helpful.

In my opinion there is no point of discussing whether stack traces are 
useful or not. Some of us would surely benefit from such a functionality 
in Boost, some of us would not. It's the same situation as with other 
Boost libraries.

In short, yes to cross-platform stack traces in Boost.

WBR,
Adam Romanek