Libbtrace is obsolete

I wrote Libbtrace some years ago to allow some kind of introspection in C programs: namely, to be able to inspect the program’s backtrace showing not just the addresses but also the relevant function names. This was useful when the GNU Debugger lacked proper multi-threading support.

This library used an undocumented (at the time) glibc function called backtrace(3) which would return memory locations but not function names. Today, browsing old source code, I reviewed my library and was glad to see that backtrace(3) is currently not only documented but it also offers the same features my library did, effectively rendering Libbtrace obsolete.


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