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Re: API clean up patch
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: API clean up patch |
Date: |
18 May 2005 12:36:08 -0600 |
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>>>>> "Archie" == Archie Cobbs <address@hidden> writes:
Archie> David Holmes wrote:
>>> Who wants a VM that's incapable of generating stack traces??
>> Probably noone, but I'd love to be able to NOT have the stacktrace
>> always
>> filled in automatically upon construction.
Archie> You pretty much have to save something at construction time,
Archie> because the stack sequence is going to change and be lost
Archie> immediately afterward.
ISTR that ORP had an optimization where it would avoid filling in the
stack trace if it knew that the exception object was dead. I think a
patch for this would not be reasonable, as long as it played well with
other VMs and had a big explanatory comment.
Tom
Re: API clean up patch, Tom Tromey, 2005/05/18