On-Crash Backtraces in Swift
Prior to Swift 5.9, all you would get when your program fails is a message from the parent process (often the shell) telling you that the child process crashed[…]
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Now, instead of the opaque message above, the result looks something like this[…]
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This new feature greatly improves the on-crash debugging experience on Linux, where it is on by default. It is useful on macOS as well, but must be manually enabled.
There are also interactive backtraces:
The idea behind this feature is that it leaves the program suspended (by default for 30 seconds, but this is configurable) and provides you with the opportunity to either attach a debugger, or perform some additional inspection of the crashed process.
If you tap the spacebar when this prompt appears, you will be presented with a simple command prompt that allows you to change the backtracer settings, generate a new backtrace, list loaded images, display register and memory contents, and get a listing of all of the threads in the process.
Previously:
