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      1 // Copyright (c) 2012 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 
      8 #include <iosfwd>
      9 #include <string>
     10 
     11 #include "base/base_export.h"
     12 #include "build/build_config.h"
     13 
     14 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
     15 #include <unistd.h>
     16 #endif
     17 
     18 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     19 struct _EXCEPTION_POINTERS;
     20 #endif
     21 
     22 namespace base {
     23 namespace debug {
     24 
     25 // Enables stack dump to console output on exception and signals.
     26 // When enabled, the process will quit immediately. This is meant to be used in
     27 // unit_tests only! This is not thread-safe: only call from main thread.
     28 BASE_EXPORT bool EnableInProcessStackDumping();
     29 
     30 // A stacktrace can be helpful in debugging. For example, you can include a
     31 // stacktrace member in a object (probably around #ifndef NDEBUG) so that you
     32 // can later see where the given object was created from.
     33 class BASE_EXPORT StackTrace {
     34  public:
     35   // Creates a stacktrace from the current location.
     36   StackTrace();
     37 
     38   // Creates a stacktrace from an existing array of instruction
     39   // pointers (such as returned by Addresses()).  |count| will be
     40   // trimmed to |kMaxTraces|.
     41   StackTrace(const void* const* trace, size_t count);
     42 
     43 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     44   // Creates a stacktrace for an exception.
     45   // Note: this function will throw an import not found (StackWalk64) exception
     46   // on system without dbghelp 5.1.
     47   StackTrace(_EXCEPTION_POINTERS* exception_pointers);
     48 #endif
     49 
     50   // Copying and assignment are allowed with the default functions.
     51 
     52   ~StackTrace();
     53 
     54   // Gets an array of instruction pointer values. |*count| will be set to the
     55   // number of elements in the returned array.
     56   const void* const* Addresses(size_t* count) const;
     57 
     58   // Prints a backtrace to stderr
     59   void PrintBacktrace() const;
     60 
     61   // Resolves backtrace to symbols and write to stream.
     62   void OutputToStream(std::ostream* os) const;
     63 
     64   // Resolves backtrace to symbols and returns as string.
     65   std::string ToString() const;
     66 
     67  private:
     68   // From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204633.aspx,
     69   // the sum of FramesToSkip and FramesToCapture must be less than 63,
     70   // so set it to 62. Even if on POSIX it could be a larger value, it usually
     71   // doesn't give much more information.
     72   static const int kMaxTraces = 62;
     73 
     74   void* trace_[kMaxTraces];
     75 
     76   // The number of valid frames in |trace_|.
     77   size_t count_;
     78 };
     79 
     80 namespace internal {
     81 
     82 #if defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_ANDROID)
     83 // POSIX doesn't define any async-signal safe function for converting
     84 // an integer to ASCII. We'll have to define our own version.
     85 // itoa_r() converts a (signed) integer to ASCII. It returns "buf", if the
     86 // conversion was successful or NULL otherwise. It never writes more than "sz"
     87 // bytes. Output will be truncated as needed, and a NUL character is always
     88 // appended.
     89 BASE_EXPORT char *itoa_r(intptr_t i,
     90                          char *buf,
     91                          size_t sz,
     92                          int base,
     93                          size_t padding);
     94 #endif  // defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_ANDROID)
     95 
     96 }  // namespace internal
     97 
     98 }  // namespace debug
     99 }  // namespace base
    100 
    101 #endif  // BASE_DEBUG_STACK_TRACE_H_
    102