Talk:Stack trace

I really do not know how to make this fit into this article, however I think it's very useful for others:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-cppexcep.html?ca=dnt-68 is a nice article about how to utilize backtrace and backtrace_symbols for stacktraces in C++ Exception handling.

-Tino 91.64.74.131 16:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Other contexts?
Can "stack trace" or "traceback"/"backtrace" be used in other contexts besides just displaying the active stacks? For instance, can it be applied to the act of debugging an application using tracepoints to trace a bug to its source up the call stack?--Subversive Sound (talk) 12:21, 6 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I would like to see more about the history behind when these were implemented in different computing systems. I see a strong parallel to telephone switching, but can't find any sources. See this video about the No 5 Crossbar on YouTube (XKyXCZV_faY) at 9:31 about what is basically a stack trace for a mechanical computer. Rkedge (talk) 15:15, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

try..catch
There should be something about try..catch and about exceptions I think. Exceptions in javascript hold stack property that hold stack trace of an exception, from last function to place where exception was thrown. jcubic (talk) 16:10, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ Added Exception handling to See also. NE Ent 14:29, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Dubious: "continuously allocated"
From the intro, this doesn't make a lot of sense: "Memory is continuously allocated on a stack but not on a heap, thus reflective of their names." Shouldn't that be "continually" (in repeated succession), not "continuously" (without interruption)?

In any case, I don't see how it is reflective of their names in any other than a tautological sense. BMJ-pdx (talk) 15:58, 19 March 2024 (UTC)