How to generate stack trace from SEH exception

Question

I am catching an exception using Win32 SEH:

try
{
    // illegal operation that causes access violation
}
__except( seh_filter_func(GetExceptionInformation()) )
{
    // abort
}

where the filter function looks like:

int seh_filter_func(EXCEPTION_POINTERS *xp)
{
    // log EIP, other registers etc. to file

    return 1;
}

This works so far and the value in xp->ContextRecord->Eip tells me which function caused the access violation (actually - ntdll.dll!RtlEnterCriticalSection , and the value for EDX tells me that this function was called with a bogus argument).

However, this function is called in many places, including from other WinAPI functions, so I still don't know which code is responsible for calling this function with the bogus argument.

Is there any code I can use to generate a trace of the chain of function calls leading up to where EIP is now, based on the info in EXCEPTION_POINTERS or otherwise? (Running the program under an external debugger isn't an option).

Just EIP values would be OK as I can look them up in the linker map and symbol tables, although if there is a way to automatically map them to symbol names that'd be even better.

I am using C++Builder 2006 for this project, although an MSVC++ solution might work anyway.

Answer 1

I think you can use Boost.Stacktrace for this:

#include <boost/stacktrace.hpp>

int seh_filter_func(EXCEPTION_POINTERS *xp)
{
    const auto stack = to_string( boost::stacktrace::stacktrace() );
    LOG( "%s", stack.c_str() );

    return 1;
}