// // Copyright 2018 The Abseil Authors. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. // // This module allows the programmer to install a signal handler that // dumps useful debugging information (like a stacktrace) on program // failure. To use this functionality, call // absl::InstallFailureSignalHandler() very early in your program, // usually in the first few lines of main(): // // int main(int argc, char** argv) { // absl::InitializeSymbolizer(argv[0]); // absl::FailureSignalHandlerOptions options; // absl::InstallFailureSignalHandler(options); // DoSomethingInteresting(); // return 0; // } #ifndef ABSL_DEBUGGING_FAILURE_SIGNAL_HANDLER_H_ #define ABSL_DEBUGGING_FAILURE_SIGNAL_HANDLER_H_ namespace absl { // Options struct for absl::InstallFailureSignalHandler(). struct FailureSignalHandlerOptions { // If true, try to symbolize the stacktrace emitted on failure. bool symbolize_stacktrace = true; // If true, try to run signal handlers on an alternate stack (if // supported on the given platform). This is useful in the case // where the program crashes due to a stack overflow. By running on // a alternate stack, the signal handler might be able to run even // when the normal stack space has been exausted. The downside of // using an alternate stack is that extra memory for the alternate // stack needs to be pre-allocated. bool use_alternate_stack = true; // If positive, FailureSignalHandler() sets an alarm to be delivered // to the program after this many seconds, which will immediately // abort the program. This is useful in the potential case where // FailureSignalHandler() itself is hung or deadlocked. int alarm_on_failure_secs = 3; // If false, after absl::FailureSignalHandler() runs, the signal is // raised to the default handler for that signal (which normally // terminates the program). // // If true, after absl::FailureSignalHandler() runs, it will call // the previously registered signal handler for the signal that was // received (if one was registered). This can be used to chain // signal handlers. // // IMPORTANT: If true, the chained fatal signal handlers must not // try to recover from the fatal signal. Instead, they should // terminate the program via some mechanism, like raising the // default handler for the signal, or by calling _exit(). // absl::FailureSignalHandler() may put parts of the Abseil // library into a state that cannot be recovered from. bool call_previous_handler = false; // If not null, this function may be called with a std::string argument // containing failure data. This function is used as a hook to write // the failure data to a secondary location, for instance, to a log // file. This function may also be called with a null data // argument. This is a hint that this is a good time to flush any // buffered data before the program may be terminated. Consider // flushing any buffered data in all calls to this function. // // Since this function runs in a signal handler, it should be // async-signal-safe if possible. // See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal-safety.7.html void (*writerfn)(const char*) = nullptr; }; // Installs a signal handler for the common failure signals SIGSEGV, // SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGABRT, SIGTERM, SIGBUG, and SIGTRAP (if they // exist on the given platform). The signal handler dumps program // failure data in a unspecified format to stderr. The data dumped by // the signal handler includes information that may be useful in // debugging the failure. This may include the program counter, a // stacktrace, and register information on some systems. Do not rely // on the exact format of the output; it is subject to change. void InstallFailureSignalHandler(const FailureSignalHandlerOptions& options); namespace debugging_internal { const char* FailureSignalToString(int signo); } // namespace debugging_internal } // namespace absl #endif // ABSL_DEBUGGING_FAILURE_SIGNAL_HANDLER_H_