[cfe-commits] r66078 - /cfe/trunk/Driver/clang.cpp

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Mike Stump wrote:

> On Mar 4, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> Start making use of "pretty stack dumps" to get
>> better crash info when clang crashes.  Step #2 of many.
>
> I've noticed it is hard to search for a magic string to know when  
> the compiler dies.  gcc does this by having the filename and line  
> number stored someone and then calls into the error reporter with
>
>  file.c:25: internal compiler error: ...
>
> which make is easy to find the source line that might have caused  
> the problem, leading to faster work arounds and potentially better  
> bug reports.  The only thing I've noticed is '0     clang', which is  
> too obscure and doesn't relate to the source.
>
> Does this change improve that?

Yes, this is a small part of the meta issue that I'm working on.

-Chris