On 03/03/2013 12:56 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
While it is interesting, I have not found it to be that useful in practice. The debugger already does all of this better that you could ever do yourself.
It is probably a better idea to integrate your app with a debugger than to rewrite a debugger inside your app.
There are many situations where that is not the right approach. One of them is web-servers and web-frameworks running arbitrary applications. Once such an application throws an uncaught exception then its stack trace with some other application state can be sent via e-mail to the application admins. I've seen that in practice and it's been very helpful. In my opinion there is no point of discussing whether stack traces are useful or not. Some of us would surely benefit from such a functionality in Boost, some of us would not. It's the same situation as with other Boost libraries. In short, yes to cross-platform stack traces in Boost. WBR, Adam Romanek