[Python-Dev] Decoding libpython frame information on the stack (original) (raw)

Atul Varma varmaa at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 15:54:52 CEST 2007

Hi Mithun,

Because python-dev is a mailing list for the development of Python rather than development with Python, I believe you may not have posted to the best list. Further information about this distinction, and some discussion about potentially setting up a special-interest list exclusively for Python/C interactions, can be found in this recent thread:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-June/073680.html

Regarding your question, I'll try to answer it as best I can: on our Windows application, we use Microsoft minidumps [1] instead of core dumps. At the time that a crash occurs and a minidump is written, we have some code that digs into the Python interpreter state to get a text traceback for every Python thread currently in execution at the time of the crash, which is appended to the log file that is sent with the minidump in the automated bug report. Doing this is a bit risky because it assumes that the relevant parts of the Python interpreter state aren't corrupt at the time of the crash, but precautions can be made to deal with this edge case. So while I can't help you get a bead on debugging core files, you may want to consider a similar solution on the Unix platform.

[1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680369.aspx

On 6/28/07, Mithun R N <mithun_rn at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Hi All,

Am a new subscriber to this list. Am facing an issue in deciphering core-files of applications with mixed C and libpython frames in it. I was thinking of knowing any work that has been done with respect to getting into the actual python line (file-name.py:) from the libpython frames on the stack while debugging such core-files. If anybody knows some information on this, please let me know. I could not get any link on the web that talks about this feature. Looking forward for your reply. Thanks and regards, Mithun

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