How to implement a stacktrace in C++ (from throwing to catch site)?

Question

Is the trickery way that we can show the entire stack trace (function+line) for an exception, much like in Java and C#, in C++?

Can we do something with macros to accomplish that for windows and linux-like platforms?

thanks

Answer 1

Not without either platform specific knowledge or addition of code in each function.

Answer 2

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/616653/portable-c-stack-trace-on-exception or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/564177/implementing-a-stack-trace-on-windows.

Answer 3

On Windows it can be done using the Windows DbgHelp API, but to get it exactly right requires lots of experimenting and twiddling. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679267(VS.85).aspx for a start. I have no idea how to implement it for other platforms.

Hope this helps a bit.

Regards,

Sebastiaan

Answer 4

If you are running on a platform which uses glibc, you can use the backtrace() functions. This are C functions, but they do work for c++ back traces too. This is of course not portable, but I doubt you will find a portable solution without additional code in every function ;-)

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