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aep@world.std.com (Andrew E Page) writes:

>   I'm working a on a significant body of someone elses code that I'm
>translating to unix from the Mac and PC world.  

>   Is there a function that can tell you the calling history of your
>program?  For example:

>----------------------------

>static void foo2(void)
>{
>char history_string_buffer[2048] ;

>get_history(buffer, sizeof(buffer)) ;

>printf("history is:\n%s\n", buffer) ;

>}

>static void foo1(void)
>{

>foo2() ;

>}


>main()
>{

>foo1() ;

>}

>---------------------------------

>That would produce something along the lines of:

>history is:
>foo2
>called from foo1
>called from main.

>  Is there such a beast?  If not could someone point me to a reference
>so that I may create it?
It depends on the specific compiler and options you use.  You would need
to know the stack frame format and then write a "stack crawler" that would
crawl up the frames.

Debuggers are designed to do this sort of thing.  Why not just use a debugger
to get this info for you?

Dave Hayden
dave@babel.ho.att.com

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