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| author | Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> | 2012-09-17 16:38:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@gcc.gnu.org> | 2012-09-17 16:38:38 +0000 |
| commit | eff02e4f8421170b613b80e266b5b1893c588ea6 (patch) | |
| tree | faa7758f2b343cc2da8066591b1f81f7833aca15 /libbacktrace/README | |
| parent | 142c8954fd43340a3207f26b260f793685d9b3cd (diff) | |
| download | gcc-eff02e4f8421170b613b80e266b5b1893c588ea6.tar.gz | |
libbacktrace/:
* Initial implementation.
./:
* MAINTAINERS (Various Maintainers): Add libbacktrace.
* configure.ac (host_libs): Add libbacktrace.
(target_libraries): Add libbacktrace.
* Makefile.def (host_modules): Add libbacktrace.
(target_modules): Likewise.
* configure, Makefile.in: Rebuild.
gcc/go:
* config-lang.in (target_libs): Add target-libbacktrace.
From-SVN: r191397
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diff --git a/libbacktrace/README b/libbacktrace/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e8b225745c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/libbacktrace/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +The libbacktrace library +Initially written by Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> + +The libbacktrace library may be linked into a program or library and +used to produce symbolic backtraces. Sample uses would be to print a +detailed backtrace when an error occurs or to gather detailed +profiling information. + +The libbacktrace library is provided under a BSD license. See the +source files for the exact license text. + +The public functions are declared and documented in the header file +backtrace.h, which should be #include'd by a user of the library. + +Building libbacktrace will generate a file backtrace-supported.h, +which a user of the library may use to determine whether backtraces +will work. See the source file backtrace-supported.h.in for the +macros that it defines. + +As of September 2012, libbacktrace only supports ELF executables with +DWARF debugging information. The library is written to make it +straightforward to add support for other object file and debugging +formats. |