Call Stack Logger

Call Stack Logger uses function instrumentation to facilitate logging of every function call. Each nesting adds an ident, whereas returning from a function removes it. As the result call stack tree is produced at the runtime giving knowledge of the actual program's flow of execution.

Requirements

GNU Binutils

It is required in order to get access to BFD (Binary File Descriptor library) necessary to get information about object files and manipulate them.

sudo apt-get install binutils-dev

Building and running

git clone https://github.com/TomaszAugustyn/call-stack-logger.git
cd call-stack-logger

# Create build folder and go there
mkdir build && cd build

# Configure cmake with default logging
cmake ..
# or for extended logging you can play with these flags
cmake -DLOG_ADDR=ON -DLOG_NOT_DEMANGLED=ON ..
# or to compile your application with disabled instrumentation (no logging)
cmake -DDISABLE_INSTRUMENTATION=ON ..

# Build
make

# Build and Run (as the result trace.out file will be generated)
make run

Building and running - legacy (Makefiles)

git clone https://github.com/TomaszAugustyn/call-stack-logger.git
cd call-stack-logger

mv Makefile_legacy Makefile
mv src/Makefile_legacy src/Makefile

# Build with default logging
make
# or for extended logging you can play with these flags
make log_with_addr=1 log_not_demangled=1
# or to compile your application with disabled instrumentation (no logging)
make disable_instrumentation=1

# Build and Run (as the result trace.out file will be generated)
make run