Re: XEmacs doing its own C backtraces

Thursday, 19 August 1999


        Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
> What you could do, perhaps, is to generate a C backtrace yourself
in
> the functions catching the signals.  This will not be very portable
> but I've added in glibc 2.1 a function to do just that.  There is also
> some code using this to generate backtraces in signal handlers. 
...
 Nice idea, even if only works using glibc 2.1 
I don't know about that.  There used to be code in XEmacs to
self-generate a C stack backtrace in Solaris.  I took it out because
it had a tendency to crash in the middle of printing the backtrace.

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