How to get a stack trace for C++ using gcc with line number information?

Question

We use stack traces in proprietary assert like macro to catch developer mistakes - when error is caught, stack trace is printed.

I find gcc\'s pair

Answer 1

here is my solution:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include "regex"

std::string getexepath() {
    char result[PATH_MAX];
    ssize_t count = readlink("/proc/self/exe", result, PATH_MAX);
    return std::string(result, (count > 0) ? count : 0);
}

std::string sh(std::string cmd) {
    std::array buffer;
    std::string result;
    std::shared_ptr pipe(popen(cmd.c_str(), "r"), pclose);
    if (!pipe) throw std::runtime_error("popen() failed!");
    while (!feof(pipe.get())) {
        if (fgets(buffer.data(), 128, pipe.get()) != nullptr) {
            result += buffer.data();
        }
    }
    return result;
}


void print_backtrace(void) {
    void *bt[1024];
    int bt_size;
    char **bt_syms;
    int i;

    bt_size = backtrace(bt, 1024);
    bt_syms = backtrace_symbols(bt, bt_size);
    std::regex re("\\[(.+)\\]");
    auto exec_path = getexepath();
    for (i = 1; i < bt_size; i++) {
        std::string sym = bt_syms[i];
        std::smatch ms;
        if (std::regex_search(sym, ms, re)) {
            std::string addr = ms[1];
            std::string cmd = "addr2line -e " + exec_path + " -f -C " + addr;
            auto r = sh(cmd);
            std::regex re2("\\n$");
            auto r2 = std::regex_replace(r, re2, "");
            std::cout << r2 << std::endl;
        }
    }
    free(bt_syms);
}

void test_m() {
    print_backtrace();
}

int main() {
    test_m();
    return 0;
}

output:

/home/roroco/Dropbox/c/ro-c/cmake-build-debug/ex/test_backtrace_with_line_number
test_m()
/home/roroco/Dropbox/c/ro-c/ex/test_backtrace_with_line_number.cpp:57
main
/home/roroco/Dropbox/c/ro-c/ex/test_backtrace_with_line_number.cpp:61
??
??:0

"??" and "??:0" since this trace is in libc, not in my source