Re: debugging a multi-threaded program on linux.

From: Chris Markle (cmarkle_at_sendmail.com)
Date: 05/10/03 

Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 02:31:35 GMT

All,

> If you use GNU C I'm certain there is a way to get a sort of stack
> trace. I recall a thread about it. Unfortunately I do not know the
> function/macro necessary to invoke it. Perhaps someone else can put a
> finger on it?

see glibc backtrace(), backtrace_symbols() and backtrace_symbols_fd()
functions (
http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.3/html_chapter/libc_33.html ). Or look
into libunwind although it is somewhat "green" and works best on ia64 (
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/libunwind/index.php4 ).

Chris

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