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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 different version of EnableInProcessStackDumping that also works for
     31 // sandboxed processes.  For more details take a look at the description
     32 // of EnableInProcessStackDumping.
     33 // Calling this function on Linux opens /proc/self/maps and caches its
     34 // contents. In DEBUG builds, this function also opens the object files that
     35 // are loaded in memory and caches their file descriptors (this cannot be
     36 // done in official builds because it has security implications).
     37 BASE_EXPORT bool EnableInProcessStackDumpingForSandbox();
     38 
     39 // A stacktrace can be helpful in debugging. For example, you can include a
     40 // stacktrace member in a object (probably around #ifndef NDEBUG) so that you
     41 // can later see where the given object was created from.
     42 class BASE_EXPORT StackTrace {
     43  public:
     44   // Creates a stacktrace from the current location.
     45   StackTrace();
     46 
     47   // Creates a stacktrace from an existing array of instruction
     48   // pointers (such as returned by Addresses()).  |count| will be
     49   // trimmed to |kMaxTraces|.
     50   StackTrace(const void* const* trace, size_t count);
     51 
     52 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     53   // Creates a stacktrace for an exception.
     54   // Note: this function will throw an import not found (StackWalk64) exception
     55   // on system without dbghelp 5.1.
     56   StackTrace(const _EXCEPTION_POINTERS* exception_pointers);
     57 #endif
     58 
     59   // Copying and assignment are allowed with the default functions.
     60 
     61   ~StackTrace();
     62 
     63   // Gets an array of instruction pointer values. |*count| will be set to the
     64   // number of elements in the returned array.
     65   const void* const* Addresses(size_t* count) const;
     66 
     67   // Prints the stack trace to stderr.
     68   void Print() const;
     69 
     70 #if !defined(__UCLIBC__)
     71   // Resolves backtrace to symbols and write to stream.
     72   void OutputToStream(std::ostream* os) const;
     73 #endif
     74 
     75   // Resolves backtrace to symbols and returns as string.
     76   std::string ToString() const;
     77 
     78  private:
     79   // From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204633.aspx,
     80   // the sum of FramesToSkip and FramesToCapture must be less than 63,
     81   // so set it to 62. Even if on POSIX it could be a larger value, it usually
     82   // doesn't give much more information.
     83   static const int kMaxTraces = 62;
     84 
     85   void* trace_[kMaxTraces];
     86 
     87   // The number of valid frames in |trace_|.
     88   size_t count_;
     89 };
     90 
     91 namespace internal {
     92 
     93 #if defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_ANDROID)
     94 // POSIX doesn't define any async-signal safe function for converting
     95 // an integer to ASCII. We'll have to define our own version.
     96 // itoa_r() converts a (signed) integer to ASCII. It returns "buf", if the
     97 // conversion was successful or NULL otherwise. It never writes more than "sz"
     98 // bytes. Output will be truncated as needed, and a NUL character is always
     99 // appended.
    100 BASE_EXPORT char *itoa_r(intptr_t i,
    101                          char *buf,
    102                          size_t sz,
    103                          int base,
    104                          size_t padding);
    105 #endif  // defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_ANDROID)
    106 
    107 }  // namespace internal
    108 
    109 }  // namespace debug
    110 }  // namespace base
    111 
    112 #endif  // BASE_DEBUG_STACK_TRACE_H_
    113