Re: [PLUG] [C QUESTION] how to tell caller of a function

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 07:27:32PM -0400, Sean Finney wrote:
> how about compiling with debugging symbols, loading it up in gcc, 
> breaking in the suspect function, and then calling bt (backtrace)?

... or did you mean, Fred, you might want your *program* to be able
to tell, during regular runtime?

If so, why? Because it'll behave differently depending? Then you
should split the functionality apart. This is one of those "you
can't do that because you shouldn't be doing that" situations.

Oh, and Sean means gdb, not gcc. And what he really means is "load
it up in a debugger" (plenty of folks still use dbx, Sean, as I
did in CS 21... Sun's cc still still produces way faster code on
sparc64 than gcc does or will for years).

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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