Exception Hierarchy [WAS: Re: Top 5]

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>>
>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>> For anything running on top of glibc (ie, every linux distribution) it's
>>> fairly trivial via backtrace() and backtrace_symbols() found in execinfo.h.
>>>  The symbols are the mangled form, but that's a simple matter of code to
>>> translate back to more meaningful names.  An incomplete version of that is
>>> available in phobos already (and probably somewhere in Tango too) -- and it
>>> should really be in the core runtime, probably.
>>>
>>> Given the 2 or 3 implementations floating around, I imagine it wouldn't
>>> be hard to integrate for both windows and linux.
>>
>> Hey, those are a handy pair of functions.
>> I just implemented a backtrace handler for Tango using those.
>>
>> The source is attached.
>
> Nice work!  I think this would be a good thing to bundle with Tango and
> druntime.  I haven't looked at the source yet, but do you have any objection
> to it being distributed under the Tango or druntime licenses?
>
>
> Sean
>
> P.S. Anyone interested in making a Win32 backtrace package? :-)

Erm, I think team0xf has had one for a while now.  I think it's a
patch, though, and not a plug-in sort of thing.