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From: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: user-requested stack-trace at exit
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:32:35 -0700
Organization: Institute for el. Measurement, University of Linz, Austria
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Taking a recently posted message from A.Appleyard I've hacked a 
stack-trace for V2. With this functions it's possible to determine how 
deep the function-nesting is at a particular place in the program and 
print a stack-trace suitable for use with symify.

This way you can trace down how you've reached some point in your program 
without generating a floating-point error or a NULL-pointer dereference.

I think this part of code would help debugging many programs. I'll try to 
redefine assert() so it will print a stack-trace too.

Roland

------------------------------ trace.cc ------------------------------
// try using the following commands:
//   gcc -Wall -O2 -g trace.cc -o trace
//   trace
//   symify trace
#include <stdio.h>

// return depth of function-calls:
//   depth()==2 is in main(), depth()==3 in fist subroutine, ...
int depth()
{
  long *bp=(long*)&bp+1;
  int j=0;
  while ((bp=(long*)*bp)) j++;
  return j;
}

// abort program with stacktrace suitable for symify
// if -g was used for compiling
void abort_with_stacktrace(FILE *out=stderr)
{
  long *bp=(long*)&bp+1;
  fprintf(out,"user requested abort of program using 
'abort_with_stacktrace()'!\n");
  while (*bp)
  {
    fprintf(out,"  0x%08lx\n",((long*)bp)[1]);
    bp=(long*)*bp;
  }
  abort();
}

// test-program to verify functions for stack-tracing
void sub()
{
  printf("depth in sub()=%d\n",depth());
  abort_with_stacktrace();
}

int main()
{
  printf("depth in main()=%d\n",depth());
  sub();
  return 0;
}

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