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

[Alon Levy]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:13:50AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> 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

I'll take that as an ack.

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