A: 

I don't know of any implementation of backtrace_symbols() which gives any more than symbol+offset.

With regards to abi:: __cxa__demangle, you need to ensure that you only pass it the symbol name, without the + line suffix, otherwise it won't recognise the symbol as valid.

Dave Rigby
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John
+1 for demangling details; waiting for a more definitive statement on whether line numbers are possible.
phillipwei