Walking the stack in C++ with MinGW32

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Name:     Errors::appendCallTrace()
Purpose:  Appends a list of the last 8 functions called to the given error string.
Params:   String to append the list of functions called to.
Returns:  none

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void Errors::appendCallTrace( string & errorMessage )
{
    // Store the names of all the functions called here:

    list<string> functionNames;

    // Initialise the symbol table to get function names:

    SymInitialize
    (
        GetCurrentProcess(),        // Process to get symbol table for
        0,                          // Where to search for symbol files: dont care
        true                        // Get symbols for all dll's etc. attached to process
    );

    // Store the current stack frame here:

    STACKFRAME frame = { 0 };

    // Get processor information for the current thread:

    CONTEXT context; memset( & context , 0 , sizeof( CONTEXT ) );

    context.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_FULL;

    // Load the RTLCapture context function:

    HINSTANCE kernel32 = LoadLibrary("Kernel32.dll");

    typedef void ( * RtlCaptureContextFunc ) ( CONTEXT * ContextRecord );

    RtlCaptureContextFunc rtlCaptureContext = (RtlCaptureContextFunc) GetProcAddress( kernel32, "RtlCaptureContext" );

    // Capture the thread context

    rtlCaptureContext( & context );

    // Use this to fill the frame structure:

    frame.AddrPC.Offset         = context.Eip;      // Current location in program
    frame.AddrPC.Mode           = AddrModeFlat;     // Address mode for this pointer: flat 32 bit addressing
    frame.AddrStack.Offset      = context.Esp;      // Stack pointers current value
    frame.AddrStack.Mode        = AddrModeFlat;     // Address mode for this pointer: flat 32 bit addressing
    frame.AddrFrame.Offset      = context.Ebp;      // Value of register used to access local function variables.
    frame.AddrFrame.Mode        = AddrModeFlat;     // Address mode for this pointer: flat 32 bit addressing

    // Keep getting stack frames from windows till there are no more left:

    while
    (
        StackWalk
        (
            IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386 ,       // MachineType - x86
            GetCurrentProcess()     ,	    // Process to get stack trace for
            GetCurrentThread()      ,	    // Thread to get stack trace for
            & frame                 ,	    // Where to store next stack frame
            & context               ,	    // Pointer to processor context record
            0                       ,	    // Routine to read process memory: use the default ReadProcessMemory
            SymFunctionTableAccess  ,	    // Routine to access the modules symbol table
            SymGetModuleBase        ,       // Routine to access the modules base address
            0                               // Something to do with 16-bit code. Not needed.
        )
    )
    {
            //------------------------------------------------------------------
            // Declare an image help symbol structure to hold symbol info and
            // name up to 256 chars This struct is of variable lenght though so
            // it must be declared as a raw byte buffer.
            //------------------------------------------------------------------

            static char symbolBuffer[ sizeof(IMAGEHLP_SYMBOL) + 255 ];

            memset( symbolBuffer , 0 , sizeof(IMAGEHLP_SYMBOL) + 255 );

            // Cast it to a symbol struct:

            IMAGEHLP_SYMBOL * symbol = (IMAGEHLP_SYMBOL*) symbolBuffer;

            // Need to set the first two fields of this symbol before obtaining name info:

            symbol->SizeOfStruct    = sizeof(IMAGEHLP_SYMBOL) + 255;
            symbol->MaxNameLength   = 254;

            // The displacement from the beginning of the symbol is stored here: pretty useless

            unsigned displacement = 0;

            // Get the symbol information from the address of the instruction pointer register:

            if
            (
                SymGetSymFromAddr
                (
                    GetCurrentProcess()     ,   // Process to get symbol information for
                    frame.AddrPC.Offset     ,   // Address to get symbol for: instruction pointer register
                    (DWORD*) & displacement ,   // Displacement from the beginning of the symbol: whats this for ?
                    symbol                      // Where to save the symbol
                )
            )
            {
                // Add the name of the function to the function list:

                char buffer[2048]; sprintf( buffer , "0x%08x %s" ,  frame.AddrPC.Offset , symbol->Name );

                functionNames.push_back(buffer);
            }
            else
            {
                // Print an unknown location:

                // functionNames.push_back("unknown location");

                char buffer[64]; sprintf( buffer , "0x%08x" ,  frame.AddrPC.Offset );

                functionNames.push_back(buffer);
            }
    }

    // Cleanup the symbol table:

    SymCleanup( GetCurrentProcess() );


    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Print the names of all the functions called
    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------

    {
        errorMessage += "\nBacktrace of locations visited by program: \n";

        // Store the number of functions printed here:

        unsigned count = 1;

        // Run through the list of function names

        list<string>::iterator i = functionNames.begin();
        list<string>::iterator e = functionNames.end();

        while ( i != e && count < 17 )
        {
            // Get this function name:

            string & name = * i; i++;

            // Add it to the error message

            errorMessage += "\n";

            static char buffer[8]; itoa(count,buffer,10); errorMessage += buffer;

            errorMessage += " - ";

            errorMessage += name;

            // Increment the number of functions printed

            count++;
        }
    }

}