[jhallenworld]

I want this capability for embedded ARM systems. I should be able to call a function to have the current stack trace printed:

https://communities.mentor.com/thread/16468

[stefan_]

The most widely distributed embedded ARM system software in the world, Android, offers this. They use mini debug info (normal debug info sections compressed, IIRC) and then you can signal a daemon in the background to do a stacktrace on your application.

Not on production images, though.

[monocasa]

> The most widely distributed embedded ARM system software in the world, Android

[citation needed]

Also, when talking about embedded systems, people aren't normally talking about full Linux distros.

[monocasa]

I've done it, but it increases binary size by a whole lot.

What worked better was a last chance hardware fault handler that wrote a partial core dump out to flash, and a tool to create an ELF core dump file from that that GDB can accept.