Re: print stack...

From:
 James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:03:10 -0000
Message-ID:
<1192564990.987505.47770@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 16, 8:20 pm, red floyd <no.s...@here.dude> wrote:

call_me_anything wrote:


    [...]

Is there something similar, which can print the current stack ?
I mean some C/C++ API which can help me get any info related to the
current stack of functions.
Thats is required for debugging.
(Please do not suggest gdb... I want something similar to gdb stack
traces but that should print stack info everytime I compile with DEBUG
on)


Not built in, but it's fairly easy to add:


For what platform? Which compiler? What compile options?

It's very, very implementation dependent.

#include <ostream>
class stack_tracer
{
     public:
         stack_tracer(const char *where) : where_(where), next_(top())
         {
             top() = this;
        }
        ~stack_tracer()
         {
            top() = next_;
         }
         static std::ostream& dump(std::ostream& os)
         {
              for (stack_tracer* curr = top();
                   curr != NULL;
                   curr = curr->next_)
              {
                   os << curr->where_ << '\n';
              }
              return os;
         }
     private:
         static stack_tracer*& top()
         {
              static stack_tracer* top_ = 0;
              return top_;
         }
         stack_tracer *next_;
         const char *where_;
};

#define TRACE3(mark, ln, txt) stack_tracer mark ## ln ## _(txt)
#define TRACE2(ln, txt) TRACE3(st_, ln , txt)
#define TRACE(txt) TRACE2(__LINE__,txt)

#include <iostream>

int f()
{
        TRACE("f");
         if (true)
         {
             TRACE("If block in f()");
             stack_tracer::dump(std::cout) << std::endl;
         }
}

int main()
{
        TRACE("main");
         stack_tracer::dump(std::cout) << std::endl;
         f();
}


Your implementation has two major problems: it requires that
every function use the TRACE macro, it skips functions which
don't use the macro; and it fails radically in a multi-thread
environment.

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