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> Evaluate "majority" this way: For every/any random binary in a distro, out of all the currently running instances of that binary in the world at any given mom
by soraminazuki 2y ago
> Evaluate "majority" this way: For every/any random binary in a distro, out of all the currently running instances of that binary in the world at any given moment, how many of those need to be profiled?
Most systems need to generate useful crash reports. Even end user systems. What kind of system doesn't need them? How else are developers supposed to reliably address user complaints?
Theoretically, there are alternative ways to generate stacktraces without using frame pointers. The problem is, they're not nearly as ubiquitous and require more work to integrate them in existing applications and workflows. That makes them useless in practice for a large number of cases.