[mythtv] Dump stack

[Johnny Walker]

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 4 July 2010 23:09, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to find out what called a function.
>> Does the myth source code have the equivalent of "dump_stack()".
>>
>> It would be useful to narrow down which instance called a particular
>> instance of a method.
>> I.e. I have places a log statement. (VERBOSE ....) in the code.
>> If that log statement is in method X.
>> I would like to find out which method Y called the method that
>> contains the log statement.
>
> If you use gdb and put a breakpoint to that particular function, you
> can check the call stack there and see the arguments passed to each
> function in the stack
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Basic how to on the gdb with mythtv is located here -
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2

-Johnny