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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2013-07-19 14:09:58 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2013-11-18 10:43:14 -0500
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Basic backtrace ability
On platforms with the backtrace/backtrace_symbols_fd interface, Tor can now dump stack traces on assertion failure. By default, I log them to DataDir/stack_dump and to stderr.
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+ o Major features:
+ - On some platforms (currently, recent OSX versions, and glibc-based
+ platforms that support the ELF format), Tor can now dump
+ stack traces when an assertion fails. By default, traces are dumped
+ to stderr, and to a stack_dump file in the DataDirectory.
+