Re: [Boost-users] [boost] Checking interest in stacktrace library

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] Checking interest in stacktrace library
From: Chris Cleeland (chris.cleeland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-06-20 23:34:18

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Jason Roehm <jasonr_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Jun 18, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Antony Polukhin <antoshkka_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> 2016-06-18 17:49 GMT+03:00 Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]>:
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>> On 6/18/2016 6:34 AM, Antony Polukhin wrote:
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>>> Is there interest in it?
>>> What functionality would you like to have in it?
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>> Documentation is always helpful.
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> Yeep, that's currently missing :(
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> If in short:
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> namespace boost { namespace stacktrace {
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> class stacktrace {
> public:
>     BOOST_STATIC_CONSTEXPR std::size_t max_symbol_width = 256;
>     typedef boost::array<char, max_symbol_width>  frame_t;
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>     stacktrace() BOOST_NOEXCEPT;
>     stacktrace(const stacktrace& bt) BOOST_NOEXCEPT;
>     stacktrace& operator=(const stacktrace& bt) BOOST_NOEXCEPT;
>     ~stacktrace() BOOST_NOEXCEPT;
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>     std::size_t size() const BOOST_NOEXCEPT;
>     frame_t operator[](std::size_t frame) const BOOST_NOEXCEPT;
> };
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> template <class CharT, class TraitsT>
> std::basic_ostream<CharT, TraitsT>& operator<<(std::basic_ostream<CharT, TraitsT>& os, const stacktrace& bt);
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> }}
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> So you can construct stacktraces, copy them and output them to streams:
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> std::cerr << stacktrace();
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> I think a library like this could be very useful for practical
> cross-platform development.
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Years back I implemented an abstraction for this which I contributed to ACE
(http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/%7Eschmidt/ACE.html)

https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO/blob/master/ACE/ace/Stack_Trace.h
https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO/blob/master/ACE/ace/Stack_Trace.cpp

You might be able to use the implementations there as a starting point.

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Chris Cleeland