Recursive SIGSEGV question

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 04:59, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> Providing backtrace with file:line requires to parse debug info.
>
> glibc libSegFault.so just record a stack bracktrace w/o line numbers.  The shell
> wrapper catchsegv convert addresses into line numbers calling addr2line.
>
> If you don't want to call addr2line (or other tools) you'll need DWARF parser in
> the executable. Why should we bloat the executable with a lot of code which
> should be in (and has been in) a debugger?

It's also a security risk to run complex parsers and other code in a
process that has just crashed due to some bug. You don't know what
state the program is in, or why it crashed, or if the stack trace is
reliable.