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@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ coverage.xml
 .ipynb_checkpoints
 
 .libs
+compile
+ltmain.sh
 perf.data*
 config.*
 configure

not_yet_integrated/stacktrace.h

+// stacktrace.h (c) 2008, Timo Bingmann from http://idlebox.net/
+// published under the WTFPL v2.0
+
+#ifndef _STACKTRACE_H_
+#define _STACKTRACE_H_
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <execinfo.h>
+#include <cxxabi.h>
+
+/** Print a demangled stack backtrace of the caller function to FILE* out. */
+static inline void print_stacktrace(FILE *out = stderr, unsigned int max_frames = 63)
+{
+    fprintf(out, "stack trace:\n");
+
+    // storage array for stack trace address data
+    void* addrlist[max_frames+1];
+
+    // retrieve current stack addresses
+    int addrlen = backtrace(addrlist, sizeof(addrlist) / sizeof(void*));
+
+    if (addrlen == 0) {
+	fprintf(out, "  <empty, possibly corrupt>\n");
+	return;
+    }
+
+    // resolve addresses into strings containing "filename(function+address)",
+    // this array must be free()-ed
+    char** symbollist = backtrace_symbols(addrlist, addrlen);
+
+    // allocate string which will be filled with the demangled function name
+    size_t funcnamesize = 256;
+    char* funcname = (char*)malloc(funcnamesize);
+
+    // iterate over the returned symbol lines. skip the first, it is the
+    // address of this function.
+    for (int i = 1; i < addrlen; i++)
+    {
+	char *begin_name = 0, *begin_offset = 0, *end_offset = 0;
+
+	// find parentheses and +address offset surrounding the mangled name:
+	// ./module(function+0x15c) [0x8048a6d]
+	for (char *p = symbollist[i]; *p; ++p)
+	{
+	    if (*p == '(')
+		begin_name = p;
+	    else if (*p == '+')
+		begin_offset = p;
+	    else if (*p == ')' && begin_offset) {
+		end_offset = p;
+		break;
+	    }
+	}
+
+	if (begin_name && begin_offset && end_offset
+	    && begin_name < begin_offset)
+	{
+	    *begin_name++ = '\0';
+	    *begin_offset++ = '\0';
+	    *end_offset = '\0';
+
+	    // mangled name is now in [begin_name, begin_offset) and caller
+	    // offset in [begin_offset, end_offset). now apply
+	    // __cxa_demangle():
+
+	    int status;
+	    char* ret = abi::__cxa_demangle(begin_name,
+					    funcname, &funcnamesize, &status);
+	    if (status == 0) {
+		funcname = ret; // use possibly realloc()-ed string
+		fprintf(out, "  %s : %s+%s\n",
+			symbollist[i], funcname, begin_offset);
+	    }
+	    else {
+		// demangling failed. Output function name as a C function with
+		// no arguments.
+		fprintf(out, "  %s : %s()+%s\n",
+			symbollist[i], begin_name, begin_offset);
+	    }
+	}
+	else
+	{
+	    // couldn't parse the line? print the whole line.
+	    fprintf(out, "  %s\n", symbollist[i]);
+	}
+    }
+
+    free(funcname);
+    free(symbollist);
+}
+
+#endif // _STACKTRACE_H_