Is reflecting on the stack trace dangerous in a release build?

Question

In C# consider the following statement:

string operation = new StackTrace(false).GetFrame(0).GetMethod().Name;

Is this a dangerous construction in a release build, where the frames may be compiled to native code?

Answer 1

No, it is not dangerous per say, but you might not get all the information that you want from a release build that was built without debug symbols. Here's some information from MSDN:

StackTrace information will be most informative with Debug build configurations. By default, Debug builds include debug symbols, while Release builds do not. The debug symbols contain most of the file, method name, line number, and column information used in constructing StackFrame and StackTrace objects.