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A report of the active stack frames at a certain point in time during the execution of a program.

A stack trace is a report of the active stack frames at a certain point in time during the execution of a program and is often referred to as a stack backtrace.

A stack trace is commonly used during interactive and post-mortem debugging. It typically lists all the functions awaiting return values on the stack at the time of the error. By examining what is on the stack and comparing it to what you expect, you can often determine how the error occurred. By inspecting the function containing the error, you may be able to edit and correct the problem.

A stack trace allows to track the sequence of nested functions called up to the point where the stack trace is generated. In a post-mortem scenario this is up to function where the failure occurred (but not necessarily is caused there). Sibling function calls are not visible in a stack trace.

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Getting stacktrace in logger

I am using log4j to log my exceptions. I want to log whatever I get in e.printStackTrace(); My code looks like this: try { } catch(Exception e) { log.error("Exception is:::" + e); } But the content I get logged looks like this: 2012-02-02…
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How can I force Ruby to show a full stack trace?

I just got this error message: ... from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/... ... 10 levels... from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/... ... and the bug (of course) is hidden somewhere in ... 10 levels.... How can I force Ruby to show a full stack…
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Print stack trace information from C#

As part of some error handling in our product, we'd like to dump some stack trace information. However, we experience that many users will simply take a screenshot of the error message dialog instead of sending us a copy of the full report available…
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What is PurpleEventCallback?

In the stack trace of my iPhone application, I see a call to something called PurpleEventCallback. I wasn't able to find any documentation for it. What is this?
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Print full call stack on printStackTrace()?

I need to write small a log analyzer application to process some log files generated by a 3rd party closed source library (having custom logger inside) used in my project. In case of an exception entry in the log I need to collect aggregated…
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What's Dead & Exploded in Swift's exception stack?

In the exception stack for runtime crashes, Swift often says arguments are Dead or Exploded. What does it mean, and does it matter for debugging purposes? For example: -> 0x100209cf0
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Programmatically get C# Stack Trace

Possible Duplicate: How to print the current Stack Trace in .NET without any exception? When an exception is thrown, its text contains the stack trace. Can I somehow obtain the stack trace text(including file and line) without exceptions? public…
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What is the difference between Call Stack and Stack Trace?

What is the difference between the terms "Call Stack" and "Stack Trace" ?
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How to map function address to function in *.so files

backtrace function give set of backtrace how to map it with function name/file name/line number? for ex:- backtrace() returned 8 addresses ./libtst.so(myfunc5+0x2b) [0xb7767767] ./libtst.so(fun4+0x4a) [0xb7767831] ./libtst.so(fun3+0x48)…
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Incorrect stacktrace by rethrow

I rethrow an exception with "throw;", but the stacktrace is incorrect: static void Main(string[] args) { try { try { throw new Exception("Test"); //Line 12 } catch (Exception ex) { throw; //Line…
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Java logger that automatically determines caller's class name

public static Logger getLogger() { final Throwable t = new Throwable(); final StackTraceElement methodCaller = t.getStackTrace()[1]; final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(methodCaller.getClassName()); …
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When will proper stack traces be provided on window.onError function?

Exceptions/Errors in many other programming languages (say java, ruby) always provide stacktrace/backtrace information. In JavaScript unhandled Errors get caught by window.onError. Although that function does not get the Error object, so we have no…
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How to get line number(s) in the StackTrace of an exception thrown in .NET to show up

MSDN says this about the StackTrace property of the Exception class: The StackTrace property holds a stack trace, which you can use to determine where in the code the error occurred. StackTrace lists all the called methods that preceded the…
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Log4j formatting: Is it possible to truncate stacktraces?

I want to log only the first few lines of Exceptions in my program. I know, I can do something like this to print only the first 5 lines of a stacktrace: Throwable e = ...; StackTraceElement[] stack = e.getStackTrace(); int maxLines = (stack.length…
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How do I get a stack trace in OCaml?

The Objective Caml language will only produce stack traces if you ask for them just right - what are the requirements for both bytecode and native code?
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