How do you print out a stack trace to the console/log in Cocoa?

Question

I\'d like to log the call trace during certain points, like failed assertions, or uncaught exceptions.

Answer 1

Cocoa already logs the stack trace on uncaught exceptions to the console although they're just raw memory addresses. If you want symbolic information in the console there's some sample code from Apple.

If you want to generate a stack trace at an arbitrary point in your code (and you're on Leopard), see the backtrace man page. Before Leopard, you actually had to dig through the call stack itself.