What is the difference between Call Stack and Stack Trace?

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pencilCake picture pencilCake · Sep 20, 2011 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

What is the difference between the terms "Call Stack" and "Stack Trace" ?

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Jon Skeet picture Jon Skeet · Sep 20, 2011

A call stack is typically "the current stack of operations" - i.e. while it's running.

A stack trace is typically a copy of the call stack which is logged at some sort of failure, e.g. an exception.

In other words, while you're debugging you will look at the current call stack - but when you look at logs, you'll get a stack trace. At least, that's my interpretation of the terms :)

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