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It is indeed "kind of nice". But the question at hand is whether it's a requirement for writing reliable software. I tend to agree with the posts here that argue that it's not. It saves time for developers, it doesn't meaningfully improve the quality of the end product.

Serious C projects tend to come up with this stuff on their own, often with better adapted implementations than the "plain stack trace" you see in higher level environments. Check out the kernel's use of BUG/WARN for a great example of how runtime stack introspection can work in C.




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