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reply Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
Why don't I get a stack trace on Memory allocation exceptions?

In my case I only get:

src/core/exception.d(647): [unittest] Memory allocation failed
core.exception.OutOfMemoryError src/core/exception.d(647): Memory 
allocation failed
Nov 12 2020
next sibling parent Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 09:22:10 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
 Why don't I get a stack trace on Memory allocation exceptions?
Is it because the stack may be corrupted?
Nov 12 2020
prev sibling parent reply Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:
On 11/12/20 4:22 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote:
 Why don't I get a stack trace on Memory allocation exceptions?
 
 In my case I only get:
 
 src/core/exception.d(647): [unittest] Memory allocation failed
 core.exception.OutOfMemoryError src/core/exception.d(647): Memory 
 allocation failed
 
Certain errors are flagged as not able to allocate memory. So you don't get a stack trace. I think it's a huge mistake, and we don't need memory allocation to do stack trace printing. But that's the way it is. -Steve
Nov 12 2020
parent reply mw <mingwu gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 13:16:21 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
 On 11/12/20 4:22 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote:
 Why don't I get a stack trace on Memory allocation exceptions?
 
 In my case I only get:
 
 src/core/exception.d(647): [unittest] Memory allocation failed
 core.exception.OutOfMemoryError src/core/exception.d(647): 
 Memory allocation failed
 
Certain errors are flagged as not able to allocate memory. So you don't get a stack trace. I think it's a huge mistake, and we don't need memory allocation to do stack trace printing. But that's the way it is.
Hit this one today, since it's a mistake, what does it take to fix it? or you are saying it's unfix-able in the current D runtime?
Jun 02 2021
parent Mathias LANG <geod24 gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 2 June 2021 at 17:52:12 UTC, mw wrote:
 On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 13:16:21 UTC, Steven 
 Schveighoffer wrote:
 On 11/12/20 4:22 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote:
 Why don't I get a stack trace on Memory allocation exceptions?
 
 In my case I only get:
 
 src/core/exception.d(647): [unittest] Memory allocation failed
 core.exception.OutOfMemoryError src/core/exception.d(647): 
 Memory allocation failed
 
Certain errors are flagged as not able to allocate memory. So you don't get a stack trace. I think it's a huge mistake, and we don't need memory allocation to do stack trace printing. But that's the way it is.
Hit this one today, since it's a mistake, what does it take to fix it? or you are saying it's unfix-able in the current D runtime?
It is fixable, but it'll take a lot of work. The main blocker is that the interface that is exposed to the user relies on memory allocation. Namely, the `TraceInfo` interface is: https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/2d8b28da39e8bc3bc3172c69bb96c35d77f40d2a/src/object.d#L2257-L2261 Note that: 1) `toString` returns a `string` (allocation); 2) The `opApply`'s delegate use a `char[]` as parameter; What we *should* have is an `opApply` on a struct that contains all necessary info, which itself writes to a sink / OutputRange. Such struct exists (https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/a17bb23b418405e1ce8e4a317651039758013f39/src/core/internal/backtra e/dwarf.d#L77-L160) but need to be exposed to user code. Then *printing* the stack trace will no longer allocate. However, `defaultTraceHandler` still returns an object, so acquiring the handler will also need to be addressed. There have been talks of deprecating chained Exceptions, and that would make such a task much simpler.
Jun 02 2021