Dump stack traces on assertion, crash, or general trouble
It's so easy to dump stack traces these days!
I have a "backtrace" branch right now that an dump stack traces on assertion failures. It works on glibc/ELF, and on OSX. We should expand it to work on Windows too, and BSD if we can.
Other fixes to make before it's ready:
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It should be able to log a stack trace too.It should log the stack trace on an assertion.
There should be an option to tell it not to log to the stack_dumps file, perhaps.Perhaps the logfile should be pid-controlled?- It should support Windows.
It should handle deadly signals (SEGV, etc) as well.It should indicate to the user somehow (if it can) that stuff might be saved to the stack_dumps file.It should have tests.