From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C backtraces for Emacs Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:39:23 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <50350B3B.3060205@cs.ucla.edu> References: <502EDAF3.6030005@cs.ucla.edu> <5034A54F.6020006@cs.ucla.edu> <83628ac3vd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345653581 12683 80.91.229.3 (22 Aug 2012 16:39:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:39:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 22 18:39:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T4Dy0-0000JD-7n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:39:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4Dxy-0007wN-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44109) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4Dxw-0007vh-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4Dxv-00044i-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:57959) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4Dxs-00041M-A7; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:39:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB3FA60002; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:39:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tNj+vkbQFl7X; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-108-23-119-2.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.119.2]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D2868A60001; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:39:23 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <83628ac3vd.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152751 Archived-At: On 08/22/2012 09:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean. An assertion violation on Windows calls a > function that displays an abort dialogue, giving the user a chance to > attach a debugger. If the user does attach a debugger, she can then > display a backtrace from the debugger. There's no other facility to > display a backtrace on Windows that I'm aware of. Yes, sorry, that's what I meant. The idea is that the Windows build can just copy execinfo.in.h to execinfo.h, which means Emacs will continue to behave as before when eassert fails.