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

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:57:47AM +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:13:27AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Both I guess. Ok, so this fails the second use case. I can do both -
> compile backtrack support in if it is available (there must be some
> define I can use)

Or this can be checked for in configure.ac


> and do gstack first if available, otherwise (if
> compiled in) glibc's backtrace.

Yep, though for now we can just go with the gstack based trace, and add the
backtrace() code later if it's really needed.

Christophe
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