http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53379
--- Comment #5 from Harald Anlauf <anlauf at gmx dot de> 2012-05-18 15:02:07 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > FWIW, if it is decided to change this, one could also consider changing > > runtime_error() and internal_error() in the same way, though one would need > > to > > audit the usage in libgfortran so that we don't generate a backtrace for a > > "file not found" or similar "benign" error. > > I agree that, at least by default, "file not found" shouldn't print a > backtrace > - though one could still think of it with some aggressive backtrace > flag/environment variable. One option is too add a runtime_fatal() that gets called by those checks that are considered non-recoverable and deserve a backtrace if backtrace is requested. Examples are array-bounds violations, invalid pointers, etc. However, this requires an audit of the frontend.
