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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: addr2line i mingw gcc 4.4.0
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:09:47 -0400
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> A third alternative is to output numeric traceback from the failing
> program, and then use addr2line (the program) to get the symbolic
> traceback in a separate manual step.

This is the approach usually recommended by AdaCore.  The reason you
want a traceback is because "something's wrong".  And that might
mean that memory has been corrupted.  The symbolic traceback
mechanism is pretty heavy, and therefore more likely to trip
over that corrupted memory.

So the approach mentioned by Stephen above is more robust.
It's also more efficient, because the symbolic traceback
mechanism is not part of your program -- it's in the separate
addr2line program.

- Bob