Re: programatically accessing call stack information

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From: Nate Eldredge
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:11

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Scott Dudley <scott@telesoft.com> writes:

> is there a way to access call stack information at run time from within
> a program?  i've been maintaining my own crude stack using __FUNCTION__
> and linked lists but can't help but think there's gotta be a better
> way...

It depends on your system.  If you have glibc 2.1 or newer, you may
have the `backtrace' function and its relatives.  See <execinfo.h>.
Other systems may have other ways-- what is yours?

Note that the way you're currently using is almost certainly the only
one guaranteed to work on every system.

-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge@hmc.edu

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