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643ec188 - Make backtrace buffer handling more systematic (#33277)

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6 years ago
Make backtrace buffer handling more systematic (#33277) Increase expressibility of what can be stored in backtrace buffers, while ensuring that the GC can find roots without knowing about the detail. To do this, introduce a new "extended backtrace entry" format which carries along the number of roots and other data in a bitpacked format. This allows the backtrace buffer to be traversed and the roots collected in a general way, without the GC knowing about interpreter frames. Use this to add the module to InterperterIP so that the module of interpreted top level thunks can be known. In the future the extended entry format should allow us to be a lot more flexible with what can be stored in a backtrace. For example, we could * Compress the backtrace cycles of runaway recursive functions so that stack overflows are much more likely to fit in the fixed-size bt_data array. * Integrate external or other types of interpreter frames into the backtrace machinery.
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