Exception Hierarchy [WAS: Re: Top 5]

[Sean Kelly]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 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.

I think it modifies the "throw" code in the compiler runtime.  If it 
could be made into a plugin though, I'd love to use it.


Sean