• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> May 22 2010

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

 Regarding the stack trace, I don't like the idea of having it only in debug
mode...


After battling with huge stack traces, there's another related feature that I'd
like to have on default: stack trace compression. If a recursive function keeps
calling itself, or two functions keep calling each other (other possibilities
exist, but those two cover most cases), the stack trace can become too much
long to print and read.

So just looking at the latest stack frame printed and penultimate stack frame
printed it can compress it, reporting only how many time the last one or the
last two ones are repeated (the uncompressed stack trace can be obtained on
request, that shows all the line numbers too).

Bye,
bearophile