site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) Rohitash wrote:

Hi, I was exploring of some interfaces in Mac OS X if present , which might help me get a call backtrace which I want to record for some specific internal exception conditions . If some kind of unwind library is already available for use , that would really help simplify my task .

I am not sure if the BSD library backtrace() and friends should be able to help me walk through all the stack frames and provide me with the arguments , parameters and the translated PC ( to symbolic names ) at any point I want to get a trace the call stack.

I was reading the man page of atos and it seemed like I can take some help from its source code.Also , there seems to be a call stack generated in "/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/" for any application level crashes, if I am not wronged in assuming.This makes me assume that the basic infrastructure already exists to dump the information , and maybe I should be on my way if I can use them for my purpose instead of writing it from scratch.

Appreciate your valuable inputs.

Thanks, Rohitash

Have a look at OSBacktrace in OSDebug.cpp, you can trace through the stack with that. You would still have to tie it in with the symbols though. Brett. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com