where do stack traces get filled in?

Thu Dec 13 01:58:00 GMT 2001

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > 
 > As for running c++filt to demangle symbols, I agree this is nasty/wrong 
 > but we can't link libiberty because it is LGPL.
Aww, I thought it was cute. ;-)
 > We'd need to write our own demangler,
That wasn't possible at the time, because people kept changing the
mangling algorithm.
Nowadays, the C++ ABI is much more standard so that's much less of an
issue. We could simply write a demangler in Java.
 > or figure out some reasonable way to go from a mangled symbol (or
 > code pointer) to a _Jv_Method.
Better still, yes.
Andrew.