Re: Optionally using a better backtrace library?

On 7/2/23 14:31, Andres Freund wrote:
> Nice things about libbacktrace are that the generation of stack traces is
> documented to be async signal safe on most platforms (with a #define to figure
> that out, and a more minimal safe version always available) and that it
> supports a wide range of platforms:
>
> https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace
> As of October 2020, libbacktrace supports ELF, PE/COFF, Mach-O, and XCOFF
> executables with DWARF debugging information. In other words, it supports
> GNU/Linux, *BSD, macOS, Windows, and AIX. The library is written to make it
> straightforward to add support for other object file and debugging formats.
>
>
> The state I currently have is very hacky, but if there's interest in
> upstreaming something like this, I could clean it up.

+1
Seems useful!

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