| 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. |