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A beautiful stack trace pretty printer for C++

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2013-03-15 · latest 2025-11-21

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  1. …the stacktrace facilities so much that I got permission to open source a library inspired from it: https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp (I know I am not doing a great job maintaining it) At Uber I implemented a similar stackrace…
    comment by bombela · 2025-11-21 · in Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
  2. I enjoy using backward: https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp
    comment by dllu · 2024-07-29 · in How to build highly-debuggable C++ binaries
  3. The code: //a decent amount of this was copied/modified from backward.cpp (https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp) The license on the other side of that link: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all…
    comment by evmar · 2023-07-03 · in Show HN: Using C++23 <stacktrace> to get proper crash logs in C++ programs
  4. 100% Shameless plug. Stack capture and pretty printer for C++: https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp
    comment by bombela · 2021-08-24 · in Error stack traces in Go with x/xerror
  5. Hi there, I've also run into this issue. I've opened an issue on your github: https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp/issues/2 Thanks again for the really useful open source contribution! I will be integrating this with my C++ projects.
    comment by prg318 · 2013-03-15 · in Backward-cpp – A stack trace pretty-printer for C++