Re: [boost] Any interest for stack_trace?

From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-20 14:21:14

Dave Steffen wrote:

> Martin Wille writes:
>  > Neal Becker wrote:
>  > > We discussed a couple of years back code to do tracebacks that did
>  > > not require instrumenting, which IMO is much more interesting.
>  > > 
>  > > On linux/glibc, there is a function 'backtrace' that can help (libc
>  > > manual,
>  > > sec 33.1).  We did talk about some code.  Discussion bogged down on
>  > > demangling symbols.  At the time, the demangling code was not free
>  > > (IIRC), but I think that is no longer a problem.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > A stacktrace is helpful even without the demangling. In the worst case,
>  > one would have to run c++filt manually, which isn't that bad in a
>  > debugging scenario.
> 
>  FWIW, GCC provides an API call that demangles names: something like
>  "abi::__cxa_demangle", I don't remember the details.
> 
Yes.  When we first discussed this, that function was missing, and we got
bogged down trying to work around it, but as I said, this should no longer
be an issue.