Re: NSFrameAddress

[Lloyd Dupont]

Problem is... what do I do with a Frame?
NSFrameAddress() return a void*.
I don't kown what to do with it!
Is there a way to get method name from this void*?

Anyway I will also look at your code, thanks for it!

Regards,
Lloyd Dupont

NovaMind development team
NovaMind Software
Mind Mapping Software
<www.nova-mind.com>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Vetter" <chris.vetter@gmail.com>
To: "Lloyd Dupont" <lloyd@nova-mind.com>
Cc: "GNUstep Discussion" <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: NSFrameAddress


> On 2006-04-12 03:55:56 +0200 Lloyd Dupont <lloyd@nova-mind.com> wrote:
> > I jsut discovered NSFrameAddress in NSDebug.h
> > Looks very promizing in my case. But I have no idea how to use it... 
> > Any tips?
>
> You need to know how stack frames look like on your machine.
> You can use NSFrameAddress to 'define' a 'starting point' then walk 
> through the stack forward/backward. Since ideally the stack will keep 
> the information of methods and functions it's relatively simple to 
> dump a stack backtrace. At least, that's how I use NSFrameAddress() 
> for ;-)
>
> --
> Chris