[Spice-devel] [PATCH] common: add backtrace via gstack

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:50:49AM +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> Add a backtrace printing function copied from xserver os/backtrace.c
> that uses gstack which seems to be available enough that xserver uses it :)
> Used in ASSERT, tested on F15.

What use case do you have in mind for this? Is it meant for use during
development when something asserts but we forgot to run it in gdb? Or do
you want to get more backtraces from crashes in bugzilla? I'm asking
because /usr/bin/gstack comes in the gdb package here, which is not likely
to be installed on "users" boxes. glibc also has backtrace(3) and
backtrace_symbols(3), but they are explicitly documented as GNU extensions.

Apart from this, this is a good idea to have this.

Christophe
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