GCC stack backtraces

[Toon Moene]

On 08/29/2012 06:21 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> The DWARF reader calls malloc and is therefore not async-signal safe.

It also is a problem if the crash in the program is due to overwriting 
the malloc heap administration (which easily occurs in Fortran if you 
overwrite bounds of allocatable arrays that can't be caught by 
bounds-check due to the wrong bounds being used inside a subroutine).

I have had Fortran program tracebacks (as described by Janne) hanging 
due to this, which is hard to work around (euphemism).

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