Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020328100149.024a43d8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:03:41 -0500 To: "Hans Horn" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: stacktrace from withn an exec upon error condition In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:30 AM 3/28/2002, Hans Horn wrote: >Dear all, > >is there a way to create (and print) a procedure traceback from within an >executable that is invoked upon error condition? >This is possible on many other platforms. >I've read about strace, but that seems to be not what I want, as to my >understanding the executable needs to be run under strace. Look at the Win32 API. There are some APIs that allow you to get a stack trace and walk it. Not sure if it will work with Cygwin/gcc but you might want to investigate it. Sorry, I forget the details of the functionality (or even the names of the calls!) It's been a while. But you should be able to find it at the MSDN site. Good luck, Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/