Re: [Boost-users] Exception Stack Trace Question.

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:30:18 -0400, David Abrahams wrote

"Piyush Kapadia" writes:

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Though catch(.) statement allows catching exception not associated with any class, it leads to ambiguous condition as there is no way to have any error message with it.

Does Boost provide any means to be able to print stack trace when exception is caught ?

No, Boost doesn't provide that. It isn't possible to implement that feature portably; in fact by the time you reach catch(...) the stack trace information may be completely gone.

It can be done for user exceptions by snapping the stack at the point of the exception throw. There's some really old stuff that was proposed a couple years back this. I haven't used this on a real project and obviously it hasn't been reviewed, so 'buyer beware'. You'll need a Yahoo id to see these files. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/StackTraces/ Jeff