Re: [Caml-list] Why are backtraces (sometimes) useless

[malc <malc@pulsesoft.com>]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Yaron Minsky wrote:

> 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.

Native code backtracing i did is constrained by the fact that only
functions that contain gc call site are included into backtrace.
I even included an example which showcases this limitation.

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