[Xorp-hackers] BGP and exceptions

[Bruce Simpson]

Ben Greear wrote:

> Since you don't even get a useful stack-trace out of the exception
> crashes, and since the attribute decode logic is typically ~20 stack frames
> deep, it's very difficult to debug the cause of the exceptions and to
> figure out where to add appropriate catch() logic.

BTW I find code navigators e.g. KScope, Red Hat Source Navigators are
very useful for debugging and understanding real large C++ systems such
as XORP