more informative stack traces

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Mon Apr 14 03:16:15 EDT 2003


"L.C." wrote:

> I am proposing a different style of stack trace which I found more
> useful in debugging problems with live code. The main change involves
> showing the actual parameter values in function calls, gdb-style.
> It sounds simple because it really is, but it saves lots of guesswork
> when navigating through the stack to see what caused a problem.

Looks pretty neat.  I find myself wondering what the arguments were in
the call stack myself.

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