> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:20:08AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > Included is a manpage documenting backtrace(); it is not presently > > > ready for inclusion; some issues remain. > > > > > I'm sending it for review > > > and for help.. > > > > Justin, I probably need you to do as much as possible. > > Have you read the other documentation, and integrated relevant > > ideas into the page? > No worries; I submitted to bug such as to forward it to Sefan and make > it otherwise available for review.
Please make sure you read those other docs thoroughly. > > My helping time is limited. Happily, Stefan is willing to help. > > Converse with him, and keep me in the loop. > > > > > You can view it with something like "nroff -man backtrace.3 |less". > > > > It was a while beore I realised that "man -l" is simpler... > For me, man -l doesn't have any underline or bold.. Strange -- it works fine displaying formatting for me. > > > The most important thing that needs fixing is figuring out why the > > > backtrace doesn't work :) I don't know how to get the function names > > > to resolve from their addresses. Apparently -rdynamic does this, but > > > it doesn't work for me... > > > > It works for me: > It works for me too now that you point out that static makes the > backtrace symbols unavailable.. Good. M -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/, read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]