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      1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef BASE_DEBUG_STACK_TRACE_H_
      6 #define BASE_DEBUG_STACK_TRACE_H_
      7 #pragma once
      8 
      9 #include <iosfwd>
     10 
     11 #include "base/base_api.h"
     12 #include "build/build_config.h"
     13 
     14 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     15 struct _EXCEPTION_POINTERS;
     16 #endif
     17 
     18 namespace base {
     19 namespace debug {
     20 
     21 // A stacktrace can be helpful in debugging. For example, you can include a
     22 // stacktrace member in a object (probably around #ifndef NDEBUG) so that you
     23 // can later see where the given object was created from.
     24 class BASE_API StackTrace {
     25  public:
     26   // Creates a stacktrace from the current location.
     27   StackTrace();
     28 
     29 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     30   // Creates a stacktrace for an exception.
     31   // Note: this function will throw an import not found (StackWalk64) exception
     32   // on system without dbghelp 5.1.
     33   StackTrace(_EXCEPTION_POINTERS* exception_pointers);
     34 #endif
     35 
     36   // Copying and assignment are allowed with the default functions.
     37 
     38   ~StackTrace();
     39 
     40   // Gets an array of instruction pointer values. |*count| will be set to the
     41   // number of elements in the returned array.
     42   const void* const* Addresses(size_t* count) const;
     43 
     44   // Prints a backtrace to stderr
     45   void PrintBacktrace() const;
     46 
     47   // Resolves backtrace to symbols and write to stream.
     48   void OutputToStream(std::ostream* os) const;
     49 
     50  private:
     51   // From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204633.aspx,
     52   // the sum of FramesToSkip and FramesToCapture must be less than 63,
     53   // so set it to 62. Even if on POSIX it could be a larger value, it usually
     54   // doesn't give much more information.
     55   static const int kMaxTraces = 62;
     56 
     57   void* trace_[kMaxTraces];
     58   int count_;
     59 };
     60 
     61 }  // namespace debug
     62 }  // namespace base
     63 
     64 #endif  // BASE_DEBUG_STACK_TRACE_H_
     65