Getting call stack within C/C++ program

[Alex Vinokur]

Hi,

Is there any system call that enables to get call stack within C/C++ program?

(Sometimes) I would like to use it instead of assert().


assert(condition);
If assert() fails we have got coredump and can get call stack using gdb.


I need something like
if (!condition)
{
get-call-stack();
}

Thanks

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

If you want to print a stack trace of the current thread to stderr, on Integrity you can do:
#include
U_STACK_TRACE();

For C applications, you need to link with -lunwind.

[Alex Vinokur]

Excellent. Thanks.
Two questions are below

// --- a.cpp ----
#include

void foo1 (int i)
{
U_STACK_TRACE();
}

void foo2 (int i1, int i2)
{
foo1 (i1 + i2);
}

int main()
{
foo2 (100, 200);
return 0;
}
// ----------

> aCC +DD64 -AA -g a.cpp

> a.out
(0) 0x4000000000000e50 _Z4foo1i + 0x40 at a.cpp:6 [./a.out]
(1) 0x4000000000000f20 _Z4foo2ii + 0x30 at a.cpp:11 [./a.out]
(2) 0x4000000000000fe0 main + 0x30 at a.cpp:16 [./a.out]
(3) 0xc000000000042450 main_opd_entry + 0x50 [/usr/lib/hpux64/dld.so]


====================
Question-1. Is it possible to print demangled names?
Ouestion-2. Is it possiblr to print also values of function arguments?

Thanks

[Alex Vinokur]

No problem with demangled names.

> ./a.out | & c++filt
(0) 0x4000000000000e50 foo1(int) + 0x40 at a.cpp:6 [./a.out]
(1) 0x4000000000000f20 foo2(int,int) + 0x30 at a.cpp:11 [./a.out]
(2) 0x4000000000000fe0 main + 0x30 at a.cpp:16 [./a.out]
(3) 0xc000000000042450 main_opd_entry + 0x50 [/usr/lib/hpux64/dld.so]


So, only second question: values of function arguments?

Thanks

[Dennis Handly]

>values of function arguments?

You would have to create your own. See uwx(3X) and unwind(5).

But depending on the opt level, all you can print out are the 8 parm registers and they may have been changed when you are getting a stack trace.

[Alex Vinokur]

Dennis, thank you.