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RFC: Allow custom StackTraces #216

@cyphar

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@cyphar

At the moment, there is no way to provide a custom stack trace for an error -- the stack trace is captured at Wrapf (or other such wrapping) time. While this is totally acceptable for pure-Go code, it would be useful to be able to add a stacktrace from a non-Go library which generates its own stacktraces.

The usecase that drives this is https://github.com/openSUSE/libpathrs -- it's a Rust library for which I'm writing some Go bindings. The fundamental cause of the error is within Rust code, but the Rust code provides (through C FFI) a full backtrace at the point the error occurred. Being able to produce loss-free Go errors would be pretty useful IMHO.

This proposal basically boils down to having something as simple as:

func (*stack) WithCustomStacktrace(s StackTrace) { /* ... */ }

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