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From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <luciano@lsd.di.uminho.pt>
To: "Singh, Umesh K (MED)" <Umesh.Singh@geind.ge.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stack trace
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:57:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030821105708.GA8141@lsd.di.uminho.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DD9E117A8BE9F34FA4130376EC9C1F6A05E5136D@BANMLVEM01.e2k.ad.ge.com>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:29:56AM +0530, Singh, Umesh K (MED) wrote:
> 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.
> 
> i thot it will be helpful in my big programs.
> 
> if it is possible, any direction/pointers???

Other people pointed to backtrace(), but I normally use in my programs,
for debugging purposes, assert(3) or abort(2) directly. The program is
also then terminated.

Thus I get a core file with the state of the program at that time. (Don't
forget to check the ulimit for core file size.)

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-21 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ 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 ` (F)stack trace Steven
2003-08-21 10:57 ` Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha [this message]
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2003-08-22  3:54 stack trace Singh, Umesh K (MED)

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