When I cause an exception in my code, I’d like to get a useful stack dump. Specifically, the line where the exception was thrown. For example, I use the vector::at method to access my vector arrays to make sure I don’t go past the end. In the middle of a very very long script I get an exception beca…

Running under gdb will be faster than valgrind, but if that’s also too inconvenient b/c of the number of files, you can try the following code: trace_except2.cxx (4.1 KB) Build it into a shared library, then preload it. Run it, and use addr2line to get the line from the address + file name that is …

Getting a useful crash dump when an exception is thrown

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Wile_E_Coyote March 3, 2018, 6:22pm 2