'ndk-stack' is a simple tool that allows you to analyze stack traces as they appear in the output of 'adb logcat' and replace any address inside a shared library with the corresponding:values.
In the output of 'adb logcat', you may see something like the followings, and we must translate those:
I/DEBUG ( 31): *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
I/DEBUG ( 31): Build fingerprint: 'generic/google_sdk/generic/:2.2/FRF91/43546:eng/test-keys'
I/DEBUG ( 31): pid: 351, tid: 351 %gt;%gt;%gt; /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher
I/DEBUG ( 31): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), fault addr 0d9f00d8
I/DEBUG ( 31): r0 0000af88 r1 0000a008 r2 baadf00d r3 0d9f00d8
I/DEBUG ( 31): r4 00000004 r5 0000a008 r6 0000af88 r7 00013c44
I/DEBUG ( 31): r8 00000000 r9 00000000 10 00000000 fp 00000000
I/DEBUG ( 31): ip 0000959c sp be956cc8 lr 00008403 pc 0000841e cpsr 60000030
I/DEBUG ( 31): #00 pc 0000841e /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher
I/DEBUG ( 31): #01 pc 000083fe /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher
I/DEBUG ( 31): #02 pc 000083f6 /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher
I/DEBUG ( 31): #03 pc 000191ac /system/lib/libc.so
I/DEBUG ( 31): #04 pc 000083ea /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher
I/DEBUG ( 31): #05 pc 00008458 /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher
I/DEBUG ( 31): #06 pc 0000d362 /system/lib/libc.so
I/DEBUG ( 31):
How to use this tool
If you succeed in building Cocos2d-x android project, it will generate shared libraries in $PROJECT_PATH/obj/local/abi, where 'abi' stands for your device's ABI (i.e.'armeabi' by default);
You can feed the logcat text either as direct input to the program, e.g.:
adb logcat | $NDK/ndk-stack -sym $PROJECT_PATH/obj/local/armeabi
Or you can use the -dump option to specify the logcat as an input file, e.g.:
adb logcat > /tmp/foo.txt
$NDK/ndk-stack -sym $PROJECT_PATH/obj/local/armeabi -dump foo.txt
After that, you will get the more readable output:
********** Crash dump: **********
Build fingerprint: 'generic/google_sdk/generic/:2.2/FRF91/43546:eng/test-keys'
pid: 351, tid: 351 /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher
signal 11 (SIGSEGV), fault addr 0d9f00d8
Stack frame #00 pc 0000841e /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher : Routine zoo in /tmp/foo/crasher/jni/zoo.c:13
Stack frame #01 pc 000083fe /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher : Routine bar in /tmp/foo/crasher/jni/bar.c:5
Stack frame #02 pc 000083f6 /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher : Routine my_comparison in /tmp/foo/crasher/jni/foo.c:9
Stack frame #03 pc 000191ac /system/lib/libc.so
Stack frame #04 pc 000083ea /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher : Routine foo in /tmp/foo/crasher/jni/foo.c:14
Stack frame #05 pc 00008458 /data/local/ndk-tests/crasher : Routine main in /tmp/foo/crasher/jni/main.c:19
Stack frame #06 pc 0000d362 /system/lib/libc.so
IMPORTANT
The tool looks for the initial line containing starts in the logcat output, i.e.something this looks like:
*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
When copy/pasting traces, don't forget this line from the traces, or ndk-stack won't work correctly.
Now both the versions(linux/windows/mac) of ndk-stack are available at Android Developer .
References
$NDK_ROOT/docs/NDK-STACK.html
