Stacktrace

This library allows you to print the stacktrace just like Python, with filenames, line numbers, function names and the line itself.

It works for shared libraries too.

License

Stacktrace is BSD licensed. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Example of a stacktrace

This example uses a shared library (and you can see that everything works):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/build/buildd/eglibc-2.10.1/csu/../sysdeps/x86_64/elf/start.S", line 113, in _start
  File "/build/buildd/eglibc-2.10.1/csu/libc-start.c", line 220, in __libc_start_main
  File "/home/ondrej/repos/hermes2d/benchmarks/bessel/main.cpp", line 140, in main
        rs.assemble();
  File "/home/ondrej/repos/hermes2d/src/refsystem.cpp", line 178, in RefSystem::assemble(bool)
      if (this->linear == true) LinSystem::assemble(rhsonly);
  File "/home/ondrej/repos/hermes2d/src/linsystem.cpp", line 618, in LinSystem::assemble(bool)
                  bi = eval_form(jfv, NULL, fu, fv, &refmap[n], &refmap[m]) * an->coef[j] * am->coef[i];
  File "/home/ondrej/repos/hermes2d/src/linsystem.cpp", line 837, in LinSystem::eval_form(WeakForm::JacFormVol*, Solution**, PrecalcShapeset*, PrecalcShapeset*, RefMap*, RefMap*)
      show_backtrace();
  File "/home/ondrej/repos/cpp_stacktrace/backtrace-symbols.c", line 420, in show_backtrace()
      size = backtrace (array, 10);

Prerequisites

The only requirement is the binutils package. On Ubuntu, do:

sudo apt-get install binutils-dev

Stacktrace is written in C++ and besides binutils doesn't have any other dependencies. C wrapper is included for usage in programs written in C.

Usage

Include stacktrace.cpp and stacktrace.hpp in your projects, generate Teuchos_ConfigDefs.hpp (included from stacktrace.hpp) using your configure scripts (e.g. cmake, autotools, ...), or just leave everything enabled in there.

You can run the example compile script to compile tests. Consult it for examples how to use stacktrace in C programs.