Re: StackTraceElement support

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

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:04, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
 > > Mark Wielaard wrote:
 > > 
 > > >I must say that parsing
 > > >strings in C(++) is a challenge and I don't want to admit how long it
 > > >took to get it all right or how many seg faults I created... 
 > > >
 > > OK, I'm curious - why didn't you do it in Java, using java.lang.Process 
 > > to run addr2line and long[] to represent the raw stack trace? I guess 
 > > there might be some complications in ensuring that the void *'s always 
 > > convert correctly to longs and back, but it should still be simpler than 
 > > the C++ version.

In the Bad Old Days when it was first written, I needed
printStackTrace to work even when the Java VM/gc/whatever was
completely screwed.  This is still a good thing IMO, but hardly as
important as it was then.

Andrew.