Stacktrace - Pragmatic Memory Leak Debugging

The stacktrace program and its companion memory allocation functions provide a pragmatic and lean way to debug memory leaks.

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The stacktrace tool is hosted at GitHub.

There are no source code packages or pre-compiled binaries available. Please, fetch the sources from the repository and build your own copy.

The stacktrace comes in two parts using two different licenses:

The stacktrace program links statically to the GNU Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library. Since the GNU BFD library uses GPLv3, most source files of the stacktrace program are also licensed under GPLv3 (some source files use more liberal 3-clause BSD license). The GPLv3 licensed source files have a standard GPL header and pointer to the COPYING file that contains the GPLv3 license text.
The memory allocation routines are intended to provide a production quality example how to include the debugging functionality into your own programs. The idea is that you can copy with pride (legally) from these source files; it is fine to include them as-is into your project, or cut&paste the relevant parts, or whatever works for you. For these reasons, these files are licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. The 3-clause BSD licensed source files have a file header stating that the LICENSE file gives details about the licensing terms. The LICENSE file contains the 3-clause BSD license text.