On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Sergey Ivanov <icegood1980@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Help me to find appropriate worlaround for __builtin_return_address(). > > and __builtin_return_address(3) returns 0x80568ed > __builtin_return_address(4) returns 0xb7c8fc7c > and __builtin_return_address(5) - segmentation fault. > It would be nice to have same functionality as gdb has for "where" command As you've discovered, and as is documented, __builtin_return_address with an argument > 0 is unreliable and can only be used for debugging purposes. The mainline version of GCC includes libbacktrace that may suffice for your purposes. It requires that you compile with -g, and the current implementation only works when using ELF, as on GNU/Linux. Ian