[Mono-list] Why doesn't Mono include full stack trace information into exception?

[Andrei Faber]

Why debugging symbols are required to show full stack trace? MS .NET 
doesn't require that.

On 30/12/2013 20:42, David Curylo wrote:
> You need to tell mono to create the debugging symbols when building.
>
> mcs -debug ConsoleApplication2.cs
>
> You should see ConsoleApplication2.exe.mdb in the output directory, 
> and now when you run with the --debug option you should see line 
> numbers in the stack trace.
>
> Please keep in mind you are telling the compiler to generate debugging 
> symbols, and not actually telling it to build a debug release.  This 
> is the same behavior as you would see on MS .NET by calling the 
> compiler as follows:
>
> csc /debug ConsoleApplication2.cs
>
> I would recommend building with this option and keeping debugging 
> symbols archived with any of your releases even if you don’t ship them 
> to customers by default. Then if someone encounters an issue and you 
> need line numbers in the stack trace, you can provide the symbols for 
> that release and get detailed stack traces.
>
> On Dec 30, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Andrei Faber <andrei.faber at gmail.com 
> <mailto:andrei.faber at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> it doesn't seem to change anything
>> mono.exe --debug ConsoleApplication2.exe
>> System.ApplicationException: An application exception has occurred.
>>  at ConsoleApplication2.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] 
>> in <filename unknown>:0
>


-- 
Best wishes,
Andrei Faber

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