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RE: Backtrace library?

From: John Yates <jyates at netezza dot com>
To: 'Christophe-Marie Duquesne' <chm dot duquesne at gmail dot com>, paawan oza <paawan1982 at yahoo dot com>
Cc: "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:35:40 -0400
Subject: RE: Backtrace library?
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Christophe-Marie Duquesne writes:

> I saw there was a C library libbacktrace which is supposed
> to replicate gdb's backtrace. I found it by chance while
> browsing the archlinux users repository :
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24369

Thanks for the suggestion.  Sadly this only maintains a stack in which code compiled with function entry and exit macros can explicitly push and pop file/lineno/function triples.  It does not decode the contents of the image.

/john

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