Question

I have a program written in C that runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. Is there a way I can call a function and generate a stack trace? This would be super-useful for me. Ideally I’d like to do it on all three platforms, but Linux is the most important. (Windows is being compiled via mingw.)

Thanks.

Answer 1

For example, in GCC and the GNU libc C library, you can use backtrace().

As @slugonamission suggests, Windows offers CaptureStackBackTrace() – thanks!

Other platforms may offer similar features.

(This is obviously a platform-dependent question.)

(On a related note, there also exist self-disassembly libraries.)