[erlang-questions] Getting line number in backtrace?

[Lukas Larsson]

Hi, 

there is right now no good way to get line numbers from crashes. In
common_test suites the code is instrumented using a parse_transform to
do this, but that solution works only when used within common_test. 

There have been many discussions about this before, for one discussion
see
http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2005-August/016477.html

Personally I used to see it as a problem, but after a couple of months
working with it you get used to it. Also because error messages for
cases and if's are the hardest to figure out (imo) I tend to write
smaller function which do my conditions which in turn makes the system
easier to debug and maintain :)

Lukas

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 19:49 +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> I am picking up Erlang again after a break, now running Erlang R13B3 from
> Ubuntu 10.04.
> 
> I was wondering if it's yet possible for backtraces to include the line
> number where the error occurred?  Perhaps some switch needs turning on to
> enable this behaviour?  One can always hope :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian.
> 
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