I've had a lot of experience lately with OCaml backtraces sucking, and
I'm not sure what's going on. We're working on a decent-sizes
project (about 10-kloc) that uses threads and a decent amount of
functorization. One thing we've noticed is that backtraces are
almost completely useless --- generally speaking, they have lots of
"Called from unknown location" messages, and almost no useful
data. They often skip over functions on the call stack of the
error in surprising ways.
I guess the question is this: what kind of situations cause backtraces to drop information in the ways described above?
Also, is there anyone out there actively using the native-code
backtrace patches that people have come up with? I'm curious to
hear other people's experiences.
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