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Implementation with `libdwfl`?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing libbacktrace support and the project’s handling of platform-specific stacktrace backends. Then investigate libdwfl from elfutils and its availability across the distributions mentioned; the issue needs a maintainer decision on scope and support expectations before implementation can be considered done.

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Description

enhancement help wanted

Hey there! Would you be interested in an implementation with libdwfl from elfutils? This would provide filenames and line numbers, similar to what is advertised for libbacktrace. However, at least Fedora repos do not seem to have libbacktrace, and I do not want to build it manually. I do not know about other distros.

If there is interest, I would prepare a patch.

Dominant language
C++
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497
Forks
86
Avg merge
8d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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