so there are quite some question about this already and thank to threads like this one I have the file and line number kind of working.
The issue is that I am not getting what I was expecting in some case and try to figure out why and if there is a way to work around it.
Example
typedef struct _sig_ucontext {
unsigned long uc_flags;
struct ucontext *uc_link;
stack_t uc_stack;
struct sigcontext uc_mcontext;
sigset_t uc_sigmask;
} sig_ucontext_t;
void crit_err_hdlr(int sig_num, siginfo_t * info, void * ucontext)
{
void * array[50];
void * caller_address;
char ** messages;
int size, i;
sig_ucontext_t * uc;
uc = (sig_ucontext_t *) ucontext;
/* Get the address at the time the signal was raised */
#if defined(__i386__) // gcc specific
caller_address = (void *) uc->uc_mcontext.eip; // EIP: x86 specific
#elif defined(__x86_64__) // gcc specific
caller_address = (void *) uc->uc_mcontext.rip; // RIP: x86_64 specific
#endif
fprintf(stderr, "signal %d (%s), address is %p from %p\n", sig_num, strsignal(sig_num), info->si_addr, (void *) caller_address);
size = backtrace(array, 50);
/* overwrite sigaction with caller's address */
array[1] = caller_address;
messages = backtrace_symbols(array, size);
/* skip first stack frame (points here) */
for (i = 1; i < size && messages != NULL; ++i)
{
fprintf(stderr, "[bt]: (%d) %s\n", i, messages[i]);
char syscom[256];
sprintf(syscom, "addr2line %p -e GEBMerge", array[i]);
system(syscom);
}
free(messages);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
I prepare the signal handler then I have the main function.
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
// std::cerr << "Entering main function of GEBMerge.cxx...\n";
struct sigaction sigact;
sigact.sa_sigaction = crit_err_hdlr;
sigact.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_SIGINFO;
if (sigaction(SIGSEGV, &sigact, (struct sigaction *) NULL) != 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "error setting signal handler for %d (%s)\n",
SIGSEGV, strsignal(SIGSEGV));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
int* crash = 0;
*crash = 666;
return 0;
}
This will produce
signal 11 (Segmentation fault), address is (nil) from 0x402423
[bt]: (1) ./GEBMerge(main+0x43) [0x402423]
/mnt/hgfs/Dropbox/ORNL/software/goddess_daq/source/GEBMerge.cxx:245
[bt]: (2) ./GEBMerge(main+0x43) [0x402423]
/mnt/hgfs/Dropbox/ORNL/software/goddess_daq/source/GEBMerge.cxx:245
[bt]: (3) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7fd58e7c1830]
??:0
[bt]: (4) ./GEBMerge(_start+0x29) [0x402519]
??:?
Which seems fine (even though I am not sure why the first line appears twice).
But then if I use this in the main instead
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
// std::cerr << "Entering main function of GEBMerge.cxx...\n";
struct sigaction sigact;
sigact.sa_sigaction = crit_err_hdlr;
sigact.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_SIGINFO;
if (sigaction(SIGSEGV, &sigact, (struct sigaction *) NULL) != 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "error setting signal handler for %d (%s)\n",
SIGSEGV, strsignal(SIGSEGV));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
char* crash = 0;
sprintf(crash, "crash it damit!");
return 0;
}
I get the following
signal 11 (Segmentation fault), address is (nil) from 0x403503
[bt]: (1) ./GEBMerge(main+0x73) [0x403503]
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:34
[bt]: (2) ./GEBMerge(main+0x73) [0x403503]
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:34
[bt]: (3) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)
[0x7f5f74ba9830]
??:0
[bt]: (4) ./GEBMerge(_start+0x29) [0x406169]
??:?
I understand why the line /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:34
appears (linked to the sprintf function I assume) but I was expecting to see, somewhere in this stacktrace, a reference to the line calling sprintf in the main of my program.
I guess there is something I am missing but cannot figure out what.
Thanks for any help