RE: [GD-Linux] signals and exceptions

[Mads B. D. <ma...@ch...>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Vogel wrote:

> > It depends a lot on what you want to accomplish and whether you are
> > using threads.
> 
> We just use exceptions to print out a meaningful stack backtrace when the
> game crashes and it relies on unwinding the stack as every function has it's
> name in ASCII on the stack.

Shouldn't you be able to do this from a signal handler as well? I do that,
although very simplistic. It adds a few extra stackframes, but those can
be ignored.

Mads

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