Why are we not using libbacktrace for backtrace?

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 05:42:22 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 01:19:30 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
>> Just ran into a problem where program will crash during stack 
>> trace. Turns out not only does druntime not support compressed 
>> debug info, it cannot handle it at all.
>>
>> So I was thinking why don't we use a existing and proven 
>> library for this, instead of roll our own?
>
> Druntime does use externally supplied backtrace, if available:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/core/runtime.d#L727

Hmm, but not on DWARF platforms like linux or macOS, I see what 
you mean. Should be pretty easy for you to modify that code to do 
what you want though.