Unfolding the stack

Mon Mar 12 16:01:00 GMT 2012

On 12/03/2012 11:20 AM, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>> Alternatively, you could compile with -g and try to traverse the debug
> info tables gdb uses to work> around everything nasty gcc does, but
> there's no clean API there that I know of.
>> Since cygwin_stackdump does not dare to tread there...
Pretty much. I would just note that this is not cygwin-specific. Nobody 
but gdb dares as far as I know.
>> Out of curiosity, what is your library currently using to generate backtraces?
>>>> Well you just snipped it: pipe/fork/dup to catch the stderr of cygwin_stackdump called in the forked process.
I meant in the original, non-ported version of the library which you are 
porting to cygwin. Presumably it did not call cygwin_stackdump.
>> There's a backtrace facility in glibc (man backtrace), but it's got a long list of caveats as well, including death by -fomit-frame-pointer (it doesn't use any debug/unwind info emitted by the compiler).
> In what package? I have cygwin basics + gcc installed, and no backtrace in any .h.
This was in the context of my previous question (see above). Cygwin uses 
newlib, not glibc.
Ryan
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