I'm trying to implement some mix of native and custom stack trace dump for exception logging: I want to print custom text instead of some stack frames. To clarify more: I have a function that I want to substitute with other text in stack dump and this function has to be in stack dump to make this working.

The problem I faced is that dmd might not generate stack frame for a function - I don't know its logic but it depends on the complexity of the function itself and its caller.
I tried '-gs' dmd option and seems it solved the issue but it forces compiler to generate stack frames for all functions which seems overhead for me. I also tried putting "pragma(inline, false)" into my function but it doesn't guarantee that stack frame is generated for it.

I'm wondering whether there is a way to explicitly tell compiler "please always generate stack frame code for this function".

On Thursday, 8 October 2020 at 08:48:45 UTC, Andrey Zherikov wrote:
> I'm trying to implement some mix of native and custom stack trace dump for exception logging: I want to print custom text instead of some stack frames. To clarify more: I have a function that I want to substitute with other text in stack dump and this function has to be in stack dump to make this working.
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> [...]

Can you share some code? You don't want to use try-catch?

On Thursday, 8 October 2020 at 13:13:16 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> Can you share some code? You don't want to use try-catch?

Here is minimal example that illustrates this:
=====================
import std.stdio;

void do_assert() { assert(false); }

void stackFrame()
{
    //pragma(inline, false);
    do_assert();
}

void main()
{
    try
    {
        stackFrame();
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        e.writeln();
    }
}
=====================

Stack trace with "dmd -g -O -run test.d" command (no stackFrame function in it):

0x0040CC6B in _d_assertp
0x00410CFB in void rt.dmain2._d_run_main2(char[][], uint, extern (C) int function(char[][])*).runAll().__lambda1()
0x00410C75 in void rt.dmain2._d_run_main2(char[][], uint, extern (C) int function(char[][])*).runAll()
0x00410B10 in _d_run_main2
0x0040CDB6 in _d_run_main
0x0040234C in main at C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\druntime\import\core\internal\entrypoint.d(30)
0x7653F989 in BaseThreadInitThunk
0x77CB74B4 in RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath
0x77CB7484 in RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath

=====================

Stack trace with "dmd -g -O -gs -run test.d" command (stackFrame function is there):

0x0040C573 in _d_assertp
0x004022C4 in void test.stackFrame() at C:\Users\andrey\test.d(7)
0x004022F9 in _Dmain at C:\Users\andrey\test.d(14)
0x00410603 in void rt.dmain2._d_run_main2(char[][], uint, extern (C) int function(char[][])*).runAll().__lambda1()
0x0041057D in void rt.dmain2._d_run_main2(char[][], uint, extern (C) int function(char[][])*).runAll()
0x00410418 in _d_run_main2
0x0040C6BE in _d_run_main
0x00402353 in main at C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\druntime\import\core\internal\entrypoint.d(30)
0x00434535 in mainCRTStartup
0x7653F989 in BaseThreadInitThunk
0x77CB74B4 in RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath
0x77CB7484 in RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath

=====================

The question: is it possible to tell compiler to always generate stack frame for my stackFrame function?
"pragma(inline, false)" doesn't help here - the result is completely the same.

On Friday, 9 October 2020 at 02:01:30 UTC, Andrey Zherikov wrote:
> 
> The question: is it possible to tell compiler to always generate stack frame for my stackFrame function?
> "pragma(inline, false)" doesn't help here - the result is completely the same.

(Do you mean a stack frame, or a frame pointer?)

If you use LDC, you can specify --frame-pointer=all.

bin/ldc2 --help | grep "frame"
  --frame-pointer=<value>   - Specify frame pointer elimination optimization
    =all                    -   Disable frame pointer elimination
    =non-leaf               -   Disable frame pointer elimination for non-leaf frame
    =none                   -   Enable frame pointer elimination

cheers,
  Johan