I was always annoyed by these functions because the information they spit out is damn near meaningless without using c++filt and addr2line. (Assuming you're using it for C++ code obviously). I once looked at the binutils package to try and see if I couldn't link against something to do this automagically or just plain rip out the functionality and put it in my own library. That code was scary. But yeah, the ability to have decent automagical backtraces like other languages would be awesome. Running in a debugger is nice, but if you're not expecting the bug, you have to trigger it twice which takes at least time, and other times luck. (Nasty memory bugs that don't get triggered while in a debugger are a bitch to catch) As well as someone pointed out about daemon processes where the bug doesn't happen till day 14 or some such. Anyway, if anyone were to libify such functions I'd certainly use them... </rant> (Other) Paul Davis On 8/14/07, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:25 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > dashikugua@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > > > I want to use SIGSEGV and backtrace to debug my programme. But I do > > > not know how to use them. I'm running GTK 2.6.4 and Glib 2.6.4 on a > > > Debian woody. > > > > > > Could you please guide me and tell where to find what I am looking for? > > > > > > Any help will be most appreciated. Thanks a lot. > > > > Try linking to the following (with the -rdynamic linker option), > > and just call the install_back_trace() function somewhere at startup: > > > > http://www.pixelbeat.org/libs/trace.h > > http://www.pixelbeat.org/libs/trace.c > > if you are using glibc, then the functions > > backtrace > backtrace_symbols > > are builtin. google for them. > > of course, most people use a debugger to backtrace after a segfault, > because its frequently more useful & powerful. > > --p > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
