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diff --git a/libbacktrace/README b/libbacktrace/README index e8b2257..6225f92 100644 --- a/libbacktrace/README +++ b/libbacktrace/README @@ -1,23 +1,31 @@ The libbacktrace library -Initially written by Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> +Initially written by Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org> The libbacktrace library may be linked into a program or library and -used to produce symbolic backtraces. Sample uses would be to print a -detailed backtrace when an error occurs or to gather detailed -profiling information. +used to produce symbolic backtraces. +Sample uses would be to print a detailed backtrace when an error +occurs or to gather detailed profiling information. +In general the functions provided by this library are async-signal-safe, +meaning that they may be safely called from a signal handler. -The libbacktrace library is provided under a BSD license. See the -source files for the exact license text. +The libbacktrace library is provided under a BSD license. +See the source files for the exact license text. The public functions are declared and documented in the header file backtrace.h, which should be #include'd by a user of the library. Building libbacktrace will generate a file backtrace-supported.h, which a user of the library may use to determine whether backtraces -will work. See the source file backtrace-supported.h.in for the -macros that it defines. +will work. +See the source file backtrace-supported.h.in for the macros that it +defines. -As of September 2012, libbacktrace only supports ELF executables with -DWARF debugging information. The library is written to make it -straightforward to add support for other object file and debugging -formats. +As of October 2020, libbacktrace supports ELF, PE/COFF, Mach-O, and +XCOFF executables with DWARF debugging information. +In other words, it supports GNU/Linux, *BSD, macOS, Windows, and AIX. +The library is written to make it straightforward to add support for +other object file and debugging formats. + +The library relies on the C++ unwind API defined at +https://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html +This API is provided by GCC and clang. |