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     29 
     30 // ---
     31 // Author: Sanjay Ghemawat
     32 //
     33 // Routines to extract the current stack trace.  These functions are
     34 // thread-safe.
     35 
     36 #ifndef GOOGLE_STACKTRACE_H_
     37 #define GOOGLE_STACKTRACE_H_
     38 
     39 // Annoying stuff for windows -- makes sure clients can import these functions
     40 #ifndef PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL
     41 # ifdef _WIN32
     42 #   define PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL  __declspec(dllimport)
     43 # else
     44 #   define PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL
     45 # endif
     46 #endif
     47 
     48 
     49 // Skips the most recent "skip_count" stack frames (also skips the
     50 // frame generated for the "GetStackFrames" routine itself), and then
     51 // records the pc values for up to the next "max_depth" frames in
     52 // "result", and the corresponding stack frame sizes in "sizes".
     53 // Returns the number of values recorded in "result"/"sizes".
     54 //
     55 // Example:
     56 //      main() { foo(); }
     57 //      foo() { bar(); }
     58 //      bar() {
     59 //        void* result[10];
     60 //        int sizes[10];
     61 //        int depth = GetStackFrames(result, sizes, 10, 1);
     62 //      }
     63 //
     64 // The GetStackFrames call will skip the frame for "bar".  It will
     65 // return 2 and will produce pc values that map to the following
     66 // procedures:
     67 //      result[0]       foo
     68 //      result[1]       main
     69 // (Actually, there may be a few more entries after "main" to account for
     70 // startup procedures.)
     71 // And corresponding stack frame sizes will also be recorded:
     72 //    sizes[0]       16
     73 //    sizes[1]       16
     74 // (Stack frame sizes of 16 above are just for illustration purposes.)
     75 // Stack frame sizes of 0 or less indicate that those frame sizes couldn't
     76 // be identified.
     77 //
     78 // This routine may return fewer stack frame entries than are
     79 // available. Also note that "result" and "sizes" must both be non-NULL.
     80 extern PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL int GetStackFrames(void** result, int* sizes, int max_depth,
     81                           int skip_count);
     82 
     83 // Same as above, but to be used from a signal handler. The "uc" parameter
     84 // should be the pointer to ucontext_t which was passed as the 3rd parameter
     85 // to sa_sigaction signal handler. It may help the unwinder to get a
     86 // better stack trace under certain conditions. The "uc" may safely be NULL.
     87 extern PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL int GetStackFramesWithContext(void** result, int* sizes, int max_depth,
     88                                      int skip_count, const void *uc);
     89 
     90 // This is similar to the GetStackFrames routine, except that it returns
     91 // the stack trace only, and not the stack frame sizes as well.
     92 // Example:
     93 //      main() { foo(); }
     94 //      foo() { bar(); }
     95 //      bar() {
     96 //        void* result[10];
     97 //        int depth = GetStackTrace(result, 10, 1);
     98 //      }
     99 //
    100 // This produces:
    101 //      result[0]       foo
    102 //      result[1]       main
    103 //           ....       ...
    104 //
    105 // "result" must not be NULL.
    106 extern PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL int GetStackTrace(void** result, int max_depth,
    107                                             int skip_count);
    108 
    109 // Same as above, but to be used from a signal handler. The "uc" parameter
    110 // should be the pointer to ucontext_t which was passed as the 3rd parameter
    111 // to sa_sigaction signal handler. It may help the unwinder to get a
    112 // better stack trace under certain conditions. The "uc" may safely be NULL.
    113 extern PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL int GetStackTraceWithContext(void** result, int max_depth,
    114                                     int skip_count, const void *uc);
    115 
    116 #endif /* GOOGLE_STACKTRACE_H_ */
    117