On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 17:10 +0000, David Stacey wrote: > Please could you tell me if Cygwin supports backtrace(3) and > backtrace_symbols(3) [1]? I can't find the execinfo.h header file
It does not. However, if anyone has cycles to implement it, that would be nice. You may wish to see how WebKit fakes backtrace(3) on Windows by using RtlCaptureStackBackTrace: https://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WTF/wtf/Assertions.cpp#L226 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff552119.aspx > presumably Cygwin is capable of generating a backtrace because the 'bt' > command works in gdb. No, gdb has it's own implementation to meet its own needs. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
