C++ Code Snippet - Print Stack Backtrace Programmatically with Demangled Function Names

// stacktrace.h (c) 2008, Timo Bingmann from http://idlebox.net/
// published under the WTFPL v2.0

#ifndef _STACKTRACE_H_
#define _STACKTRACE_H_

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <execinfo.h>
#include <cxxabi.h>

/** Print a demangled stack backtrace of the caller function to FILE* out. */
static inline void print_stacktrace(FILE *out = stderr, unsigned int max_frames = 63)
{
    fprintf(out, "stack trace:\n");

    // storage array for stack trace address data
    void* addrlist[max_frames+1];

    // retrieve current stack addresses
    int addrlen = backtrace(addrlist, sizeof(addrlist) / sizeof(void*));

    if (addrlen == 0) {
      fprintf(out, "  <empty, possibly corrupt>\n");
      return;
    }

    // resolve addresses into strings containing "filename(function+address)",
    // this array must be free()-ed
    char** symbollist = backtrace_symbols(addrlist, addrlen);

    // allocate string which will be filled with the demangled function name
    size_t funcnamesize = 256;
    char* funcname = (char*)malloc(funcnamesize);

    // iterate over the returned symbol lines. skip the first, it is the
    // address of this function.
    for (int i = 1; i < addrlen; i++)
    {
      char *begin_name = 0, *begin_offset = 0, *end_offset = 0;

      // find parentheses and +address offset surrounding the mangled name:
      // ./module(function+0x15c) [0x8048a6d]
      for (char *p = symbollist[i]; *p; ++p)
      {
	  if (*p == '(')
	      begin_name = p;
	  else if (*p == '+')
	      begin_offset = p;
	  else if (*p == ')' && begin_offset) {
	      end_offset = p;
	      break;
	  }
      }

      if (begin_name && begin_offset && end_offset
	  && begin_name < begin_offset)
      {
	  *begin_name++ = '\0';
	  *begin_offset++ = '\0';
	  *end_offset = '\0';

	  // mangled name is now in [begin_name, begin_offset) and caller
	  // offset in [begin_offset, end_offset). now apply
	  // __cxa_demangle():

	  int status;
	  char* ret = abi::__cxa_demangle(begin_name,
					  funcname, &funcnamesize, &status);
	  if (status == 0) {
	      funcname = ret; // use possibly realloc()-ed string
	      fprintf(out, "  %s : %s+%s\n",
		      symbollist[i], funcname, begin_offset);
	  }
	  else {
	      // demangling failed. Output function name as a C function with
	      // no arguments.
	      fprintf(out, "  %s : %s()+%s\n",
		      symbollist[i], begin_name, begin_offset);
	  }
      }
      else
      {
	  // couldn't parse the line? print the whole line.
	  fprintf(out, "  %s\n", symbollist[i]);
      }
    }

    free(funcname);
    free(symbollist);
}

#endif // _STACKTRACE_H_