Re: StackTraceElement support

[Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 23:04, Mark Wielaard wrote:
 > > The following patch gives us real StackTraceElement support including
 > > printing of chained exceptions.
 > 
 > Could somebody take a look at it and let me know what they think? It is
 > not that different from how it is currently done but it does give us a
 > nice new feature (and exception chaining is not very useful without
 > StackTraceElement support). Even if you think the patch sucks please say
 > it so that I know where to start to improve it.

Ah yes, I was meaning to get around to doing that.  My apologies.

 > I know that people are working on using Dwarf2 and/or the Exception
 > Handler rewinder to get at the StackTraceElement info. That is probably
 > the way to go in the future, but this patch does give us some support
 > now. If someone already has some code to do it in a different way I
 > don't mind looking at it and trying to integrating it with this patch.
 > But I know nothing about Dwarf/EH at the moment so I would need some
 > pointers to more information if the current patch is unacceptable.

libunwind is sure the way to do for the future.  See

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2002-01/msg00034.html

Andrew.