// stacktrace.h (c) 2008, Timo Bingmann from http://idlebox.net/ // published under the WTFPL v2.0 #ifndef _STACKTRACE_H_ #define _STACKTRACE_H_ #include #include #include #include #include /** Print a demangled stack backtrace of the caller function to FILE* out. */ static inline void print_stacktrace(FILE *out = stderr, const int max_frames = 63) { fprintf(out, "Stack trace:\n"); // storage array for stack trace address data std::vector addrlist(max_frames + 1); // retrieve current stack addresses int addrlen = backtrace(addrlist.data(), addrlist.size()); if (addrlen == 0) { fprintf(out, " \n"); return; } // resolve addresses into strings containing "filename(function+address)", // this array must be free()-ed char * *symbollist = backtrace_symbols(addrlist.data(), addrlen); // allocate string which will be filled with the demangled function name size_t funcnamesize = 256; char *funcname = static_cast(malloc(funcnamesize)); int functionNamesFound = 0; // iterate over the returned symbol lines. skip the first, it is the // address of this function. for (int i = 2; i < addrlen; i++) { char *begin_name = 0, *begin_offset = 0, *end_offset = 0; // find parentheses and +address offset surrounding the mangled name: // ./module(function+0x15c) [0x8048a6d] // fprintf(out, "%s TT\n", symbollist[i]); for (char *p = symbollist[i]; *p; ++p) { if (*p == '(') { begin_name = p; } else if (*p == '+') { begin_offset = p; } else if ((*p == ')') && begin_offset) { end_offset = p; break; } } if (begin_name && begin_offset && end_offset && (begin_name < begin_offset)) { *begin_name++ = '\0'; *begin_offset++ = '\0'; *end_offset = '\0'; // mangled name is now in [begin_name, begin_offset) and caller // offset in [begin_offset, end_offset). now apply // __cxa_demangle(): int status; char *ret = abi::__cxa_demangle(begin_name, funcname, &funcnamesize, &status); if (status == 0) { funcname = ret; // use possibly realloc()-ed string fprintf(out, " %s : %s+%s %s\n", symbollist[i], funcname, begin_offset, ++end_offset); } else { // demangling failed. Output function name as a C function with // no arguments. fprintf(out, " %s : %s()+%s %s\n", symbollist[i], begin_name, begin_offset, ++end_offset); } ++functionNamesFound; } else { // couldn't parse the line? print the whole line. fprintf(out, " %s\n", symbollist[i]); } } if (!functionNamesFound) { fprintf(out, "There were no function names found in the stack trace\n." "Seems like debug symbols are not installed, and the stack trace is useless.\n"); } if (functionNamesFound < addrlen - 2) { fprintf(out, "Consider installing debug symbols for packages containing files with empty" " function names (i.e. empty braces \"()\") to make your stack trace more useful\n"); } free(funcname); free(symbollist); } #endif // _STACKTRACE_H_