Tracing Calls

Sometimes a program stops with a core dump, and you need to know the sequence of calls that led it there. This sequence is called a stack trace.

The whe re command shows where in the program flow execution stopped and how execution reached this point, a stack trace of the called routines.

ShowTrace.f is a program written to get a core dump a few levels deep in the call sequence, to show a stack trace.

Note the reverse order:
demo% f77 -silent -g ShowTrace.f
demo% a.out
MAIN called calc, calc called calcb.
*** TERMINATING a.out
*** Received signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
quil 174% dbx a.out
Execution stopped, line 23
Reading symbolic information for a.out
...
(dbx) run
calcB called from calc, line 9
Running: a.out
(process id 1089)
calc called from MAIN, line 3
signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address) in calcb at line 23 in file "ShowTrace.f"
   23                   v(j) = (i * 10)
(dbx) where -V
=>[1] calcb(v = ARRAY , m = 2), line 23 in "ShowTrace.f"
  [2] calc(a = ARRAY , m = 2, d = 0), line 9 in "ShowTrace.f"
  [3] MAIN(), line 3 in "ShowTrace.f"
(dbx)
Show the sequence of calls, starting at where the execution stopped: