A working backtrace for linux

[Brad Roberts]

On 8/3/2010 8:09 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> Graham St Jack Wrote:
>>
>> Sean, is there any chance of you rolling some of the good stuff in this 
>> code into druntime?
>>
>> In particular, it would be very nice to get symbol names in a stacktrace 
>> rather than a bunch of addresses, and even nicer to get a stacktrace on 
>> a SIGSEGV.
> 
> You can get the symbol names by adding -L--export-dynamic to your DFLAGS in dmd.conf.  That option is on by default on OSX and I didn't realize it was different on Linux.  I'll sort out demangling as well, it's just a bit more work.  I like the stack trace code provided, but it uses a lot of modules that aren't available to druntime so it would be difficult to use directly.

see also my notes in bug 1001, the one all about this topic.