Re: Stack with a tail call is missing function names?

[Paul K <paulclinger@...>]

Yes, that's an option; I also have access to the source code and can
technically parse it and figure out what the function name was, but
none of these is foolproof. I'll simply report it as "unknown" or
"anonymous", which may be sufficient for my purposes.

Paul.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Geoff Leyland
<geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 20/06/2012, at 12:28 PM, Paul K wrote:
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>> Yes, that would work, but I'm developing a stack viewer, which should
>> work with any type of stack content and can only do it post factum
>> (when the call is already made and without any code modifications). I
>> added a check for this case, but wasn't sure if this is the best that
>> can be done in this case.
>
> If you add a call hook you can catch the calls as they go past and store your own copy of the stack, and then, with a bit of luck, guess what's up when there's a tail call/return.
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