Re: [Caml-list] How do I get a stack trace in a running program?

[Alex Baretta <alex@barettadeit.com>]

Alex Baretta wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> 
>> Therefore it seems there is no way to trigger the printing of
>> backtraces except by modifying the sources to the OCaml compuiler.
>> Except that possibly you could write a C extension which calls
>> caml_print_exception_backtrace, if that symbol is visible, and it
>> might do the right thing, with luck!
> 
> 
> This is more or less what I'm doing...

This failed pathetically. This is the best I was able to do.

alex@alex:~/darcs/sw/lib/unixlib-addons$ cat backtrace.ml

open Unix
external print_exception_backtrace : file_descr -> unit =
   "user_print_exception_backtrace"

alex@alex:~/darcs/sw/lib/unixlib-addons$ cat fail.ml

open Backtrace
let () = try
   failwith "No backtrace, folks!" with x ->
     print_exception_backtrace Unix.stderr

alex@alex:~/darcs/sw/lib/unixlib-addons$ ocamlfind ocamlc -g -package 
"unixlib-addons" -linkpkg fail.ml -o fail
Error on dynamically loaded library: ./dllunixlib-addons.so: undefined 
symbol: caml_start_code

Why in the world can't I get a backtrace for a caught exception!?

Alex

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