Add StackTrace debugging utility class.

For the moment, it only works on Linux, although it should be pretty easy to
get it working on Mac with __builtin_return_address and __builtin_frame_address.

It will mostly fail to resolve functions. Use this wrapper script:

import os
import sys
import subprocess
import re

address = re.compile('.*\[(0x[0-9a-fA-F]{4,8})\].*')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  p = subprocess.Popen(sys.argv[1:], stderr = subprocess.STDOUT, stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
  addr2line = subprocess.Popen(['addr2line', '-e', sys.argv[1], '-f', '-C', '-s'],
                               stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stdin = subprocess.PIPE)

  for line in p.stdout.readlines():
    m = address.match(line);
    if m is not None:
      addr2line.stdin.write(m.groups()[0] + '\n')
      function = addr2line.stdout.readline()[:-1]
      location = addr2line.stdout.readline()[:-1]
      sys.stdout.write('%s (%s)\n' % (function, location))
    else:
      sys.stdout.write(line)

Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/18303


git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@8218 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/base/debug_util.h b/base/debug_util.h
index 4572948..b7b5180 100644
--- a/base/debug_util.h
+++ b/base/debug_util.h
@@ -9,6 +9,29 @@
 #ifndef BASE_DEBUG_UTIL_H_
 #define BASE_DEBUG_UTIL_H_
 
+#include "base/basictypes.h"
+
+#include <vector>
+
+// A stacktrace can be helpful in debugging. For example, you can include a
+// stacktrace member in a object (probably around #ifndef NDEBUG) so that you
+// can later see where the given object was created from.
+class StackTrace {
+ public:
+  // Create a stacktrace from the current location
+  StackTrace();
+  // Get an array of instruction pointer values.
+  //   count: (output) the number of elements in the returned array
+  const void *const *Addresses(size_t* count);
+  // Print a backtrace to stderr
+  void PrintBacktrace();
+
+ private:
+  std::vector<void*> trace_;
+
+  DISALLOW_EVIL_CONSTRUCTORS(StackTrace);
+};
+
 class DebugUtil {
  public:
   // Starts the registered system-wide JIT debugger to attach it to specified
@@ -27,4 +50,3 @@ class DebugUtil {
 };
 
 #endif  // BASE_DEBUG_UTIL_H_
-