On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > If you read the rest of the post I mention it (without telling the name > :). The problem with this module is that it's useful only after you have > the core file. which is not good, because (as I've already explained):
it's important to mention Devel::CoreStack, as it is a good starting point. > 1. Many users have problems getting the core file dumped then there'd be no way to automate generating a stacktrace anyhow. > 2. There can be multiply segfaults with different causes which will > overwrite each other, so we want to catch SEGVs as they happen. that's ok, we'll deal with one at time. > Not talking about the fact that this module is not slick, e.g. you need > manual interaction to help it get to the trace. (it shows the gdb's > *more* pager for long output of loading symbols). don't have to use the module as-is, but there is plenty of logic in there that can be borrowed, rather than figuring out everything from scratch.