Getting stack backtrace for all instantiated threads

Hi All, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction ... I've got the bones of a stack trace based on backtrace, backtrace_symbols, and libcwd::demangle_symbol. This works fine as long as I'm only interested in the currently running thread's stack. But it would be really useful to get a picture (for an assert log) of the entire application. This means doing a stack trace on all created threads.

The path I'm dreading is getting each thread's stack (pthread_attr_getstack), and walking the stack "manually." Does anyone have an alternate direction that might yield a portable solution?

thanks in advance,
bcreane

Some positive info ... if I can get the return addresses on the stack into an array of void*, then backtrace_symbols() will search the loaded dynamic libraries for the symbol that corresponds to that address. So its only half the work I thought.
cheers!
bcreane

Just thought I'd check in with the direction I'm heading in ... libthread_db is used by gdb and the bozo profiler (among others) to control the threading activity of a remote process. The api is undocumented in linux, but there's a Solaris man page for each of the functions provided by libthread_db. The approach I'm looking at is to iterate through each thread, and save the frame register (%EPX on an x86) and then create a backtrace from that. Libthread_db also appears to support suspending and resuming threads which was another goal. Hope this is helpful to someone else.