for review: stack dumps.

[Tyson Dowd]

On 04-Mar-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > For it to be useful, probably yes.  You could just let it print out
> > information until it cannot go any further, but it wouldn't work very
> > well in practice.  (You start to do a stack dump, and the algorithm
> > immediately stops because there is no information available about
> > error/1, or map__lookup, or whatever, and has to stop.  Not much of a
> > stack dump).
> 
> Could it try dumping the stack from the bottom up rather than
> from the top down?

No, because there are no `succip's to follow upwards to find out what
procedure was called. You'd have to add more information to the stack
frame to be able to do this.