How can one grab a stack trace in C?

c windows debugging cross-platform stack-trace
Kevin picture Kevin · Sep 19, 2008 · Viewed 103.7k times · Source

I know there's no standard C function to do this. I was wondering what are the techniques to to this on Windows and *nix? (Windows XP is my most important OS to do this on right now.)

Answer

sanxiyn picture sanxiyn · Sep 19, 2008

glibc provides backtrace() function.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Backtraces.html

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