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+/*
+ * (C) 2008 by Daniel Willmann <daniel@totalueberwachung.de>
+ * (C) 2009 by Holger Hans Peter Freyther <zecke@selfish.org>
+ * (C) 2009-2010 by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
+ * (C) 2010 by Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de>
+ *
+ * All Rights Reserved
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <osmocore/utils.h>
+#include "config.h"
+
+#ifdef HAVE_EXECINFO_H
+#include <execinfo.h>
+void generate_backtrace()
+{
+	int i, nptrs;
+	void *buffer[100];
+	char **strings;
+
+	nptrs = backtrace(buffer, ARRAY_SIZE(buffer));
+	printf("backtrace() returned %d addresses\n", nptrs);
+
+	strings = backtrace_symbols(buffer, nptrs);
+	if (!strings)
+		return;
+
+	for (i = 1; i < nptrs; i++)
+		printf("%s\n", strings[i]);
+
+	free(strings);
+}
+#endif