Re: [Boost-users] [boost] Checking interest in stacktrace library

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] Checking interest in stacktrace library
From: Leon Mlakar (leon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-06-21 03:42:40

On 21.06.2016 05:19, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> On 19/06/2016 11:32, Leon Mlakar wrote:
>> Years ago I was briefly experimenting with capturing the stack backtrace
>> in the exception objet before throwing it, but couldn't make it work
>> reliably on some platforms. Windows code in particular was very
>> sensitive to compiler options.
>
> If you're on Windows (and using an MS compiler), exceptions capture 
> stack traces anyway.  Extracting them is a bit more of a black art 
> however, and as you said there are a couple of compiler options in 
> particular that will affect the traces.
>
Well, it really was many years ago ... when I was young, inexperienced 
and didn't particularly like wins environment. At least one of these 
things ain't true any more.

Cheers,

Leon