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Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7

From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7
Date	2011-10-01 20:06 -0700
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Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> You may be right, but I've read in the Javadoc for 
> java.util.logging.Logger, for example 
> <http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/logging/Logger.html>:
> 
> | For the methods that do not take an explicit source name and
> | method name, the Logging framework will make a "best effort" to
> | determine which class and method called into the logging method.
> | However, it is important to realize that this automatically
> | inferred information may only be approximate (or may even be
> | quite wrong!). Virtual machines are allowed to do extensive
> | optimizations when JITing and may entirely remove stack frames,
> | making it impossible to reliably locate the calling class and
> | method.
> 
> So it seems stack trace information is not guaranteed to be 
> available to user code.  This detail may be given somewhere in the 
> language or VM specifications.

Stack trace information is available; the difficulty to which the documentation alludes is that the stack might be in an odd state, not that it wouldn't be available.  So it seems stack trace information is guaranteed to be available.  Just not necessarily useful in the way you'd like.

-- 
Lew

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Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-30 15:57 +0200
  Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-10-01 13:27 +0300
    Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-10-01 13:22 +0200
      Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-01 09:10 -0700
        Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-10-01 20:31 +0300
        Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-10-01 20:02 +0200
          Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-01 12:21 -0700
            Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-10-01 22:04 +0200
              Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-01 16:24 -0400
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-10-01 23:14 +0200
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-01 17:28 -0400
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-10-01 23:45 +0000
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-10-02 00:58 +0300
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-10-02 02:04 +0200
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-01 20:06 -0700
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-10-02 13:14 +0300
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-02 08:37 -0700
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-10-02 20:26 +0200
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-02 17:51 -0400
                Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-10-03 01:32 +0200
    Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-10-01 20:19 +0300
      Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-10-01 20:04 +0200
        Re: Avoid creating a stacktrace prior to JDK 1.7 Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-10-01 21:15 +0300

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