What is the difference between Call Stack and Stack Trace?

Question

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

Answer 1

I think Wikipedia does a fairly good job at distinguishing between them:

a call stack is a stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program

A stack trace is a report of the active stack frames at a certain point in time during the execution of a program.

In other words, the call stack is the actual data structure in memory, while the stack trace is a snapshot of said data structure.