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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 <stddef.h>
      9 
     10 #include <iosfwd>
     11 #include <string>
     12 
     13 #include "base/base_export.h"
     14 #include "build/build_config.h"
     15 
     16 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
     17 #include <unistd.h>
     18 #endif
     19 
     20 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     21 struct _EXCEPTION_POINTERS;
     22 struct _CONTEXT;
     23 #endif
     24 
     25 namespace base {
     26 namespace debug {
     27 
     28 // Enables stack dump to console output on exception and signals.
     29 // When enabled, the process will quit immediately. This is meant to be used in
     30 // unit_tests only! This is not thread-safe: only call from main thread.
     31 // In sandboxed processes, this has to be called before the sandbox is turned
     32 // on.
     33 // Calling this function on Linux opens /proc/self/maps and caches its
     34 // contents. In non-official builds, this function also opens the object files
     35 // that 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 EnableInProcessStackDumping();
     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(_EXCEPTION_POINTERS* exception_pointers);
     57   StackTrace(const _CONTEXT* context);
     58 #endif
     59 
     60   // Copying and assignment are allowed with the default functions.
     61 
     62   ~StackTrace();
     63 
     64   // Gets an array of instruction pointer values. |*count| will be set to the
     65   // number of elements in the returned array.
     66   const void* const* Addresses(size_t* count) const;
     67 
     68   // Prints the stack trace to stderr.
     69   void Print() const;
     70 
     71 #if !defined(__UCLIBC__)
     72   // Resolves backtrace to symbols and write to stream.
     73   void OutputToStream(std::ostream* os) const;
     74 #endif
     75 
     76   // Resolves backtrace to symbols and returns as string.
     77   std::string ToString() const;
     78 
     79  private:
     80 #if defined(OS_WIN)
     81   void InitTrace(const _CONTEXT* context_record);
     82 #endif
     83 
     84   // From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204633.aspx,
     85   // the sum of FramesToSkip and FramesToCapture must be less than 63,
     86   // so set it to 62. Even if on POSIX it could be a larger value, it usually
     87   // doesn't give much more information.
     88   static const int kMaxTraces = 62;
     89 
     90   void* trace_[kMaxTraces];
     91 
     92   // The number of valid frames in |trace_|.
     93   size_t count_;
     94 };
     95 
     96 namespace internal {
     97 
     98 #if defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_ANDROID)
     99 // POSIX doesn't define any async-signal safe function for converting
    100 // an integer to ASCII. We'll have to define our own version.
    101 // itoa_r() converts a (signed) integer to ASCII. It returns "buf", if the
    102 // conversion was successful or NULL otherwise. It never writes more than "sz"
    103 // bytes. Output will be truncated as needed, and a NUL character is always
    104 // appended.
    105 BASE_EXPORT char *itoa_r(intptr_t i,
    106                          char *buf,
    107                          size_t sz,
    108                          int base,
    109                          size_t padding);
    110 #endif  // defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_ANDROID)
    111 
    112 }  // namespace internal
    113 
    114 }  // namespace debug
    115 }  // namespace base
    116 
    117 #endif  // BASE_DEBUG_STACK_TRACE_H_
    118