Tony Hoyle (tmh@nothing-on.tv) wrote:
> Is there a way that gdb/ddd could be invoked when a program is about
> to dump core...?
Yes, I use that to get a symbolic stack dump after a crash,
although I find that the gdb so invoked doesn't accept interactive
commands, and I have to use 'kill -9' afterwards.
Here's the code I use:
void dump_stack(int signum)
{
(void) signum;
char s[160];
// The right command to execute depends on the program. Adjust to taste.
system("echo 'info threads\nbt\nthread 3\nbt\nthread 4\nbt\nthread 5\nbt\n' > gdbcmd");
sprintf(s, "gdb -batch -x gdbcmd %s %d", argv0, (int) getpid());
printf("Crashed! Starting debugger to get stack dump. You may need to kill -9 this process afterwards.\n");
system(s);
exit(1);
}
main() {
signal(SIGSEGV, dump_stack);
signal(SIGBUS, dump_stack);
...
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