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From: "Steven" <sos22@cam.ac.uk>
To: "Singh, Umesh K (MED)" <Umesh.Singh@geind.ge.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (F)stack trace
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:57:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030821075704.GA598@archibold.chu.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DD9E117A8BE9F34FA4130376EC9C1F6A05E5136D@BANMLVEM01.e2k.ad.ge.com>

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> is it possible to get the stack trace without attaching the process
> to debugger. For Ex. can i write a func let's say
> "print_stack_trace()" and call it anywhere in my program to print
> the stack trace at that point of time.
If you're using glibc, it's reasonably easy:

#include <execinfo.h>

void print_stack_trace(void)
{
	void *buffer[100];
	int x;
	x = backtrace(buffer, 100);
	backtrace_symbols_fd(buffer, x, 1);
}

Steven Smith,
sos22@cam.ac.uk.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-21  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-21  3:59 stack trace Singh, Umesh K (MED)
2003-08-21  5:07 ` Glynn Clements
2003-08-21  6:12 ` Fekete Gabor
2003-08-21  7:57 ` Steven [this message]
2003-08-21 10:57 ` Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha

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