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The libbacktrace library
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Initially written by Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
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The libbacktrace library may be linked into a program or library and
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used to produce symbolic backtraces. Sample uses would be to print a
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detailed backtrace when an error occurs or to gather detailed
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profiling information.
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The libbacktrace library is provided under a BSD license. See the
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source files for the exact license text.
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The public functions are declared and documented in the header file
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backtrace.h, which should be #include'd by a user of the library.
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Building libbacktrace will generate a file backtrace-supported.h,
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which a user of the library may use to determine whether backtraces
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will work. See the source file backtrace-supported.h.in for the
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macros that it defines.
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As of September 2012, libbacktrace only supports ELF executables with
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DWARF debugging information. The library is written to make it
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straightforward to add support for other object file and debugging
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formats.
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