Backward ROS

For info about the backward-cpp project check https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp

This wrapper should make it very easy to integrate backward_cpp into your ROS2 packages.

Integration of backward_ros

Add backward_ros to your package.xml <depend>backward_ros</depend>

Add backward_ros to your CMakeLists.txt find_package(backward_ros REQUIRED)

You’re done, it should automatically add a library to your executables, when they crash, they should print a nice stacktrace like this:

To get line numbers and more details, you need to build with debug information enabled (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE = Debug or RelWithDebInfo)

Changelog for package backward_ros

1.0.6 (2024-11-07)

• Update backward_rosConfig.cmake.in adding both OS paths
• Update backward_rosConfig.cmake.in to windows location
• Set cxx standard to 14 Foxy targets = C++14 https://docs.ros.org/en/foxy/The-ROS2-Project/Contributing/Code-Style-Language-Versions.html
• Merge branch 'remove/linters' into 'foxy-devel' Remove linter tests for backward_ros See merge request qa/backward_ros!8
• Merge branch 'fix/ament_cmake_config' into 'remove/linters' Include BackwardConfigAment.cmake in backward_ros cmake config See merge request qa/backward_ros!10
• Include the full path to BackwardConfigAment.cmake
• include the contents of BackwardConfigAment.cmake
• Remove linter tests for backward_ros
• Merge branch 'fix/link_library_always' into 'foxy-devel' Set backward_ros library to be linked always See merge request qa/backward_ros!7
• Set backward_ros library to be linked always
• Contributors: Gilmar Correia, Noel Jimenez, Sai Kishor Kothakota, mosfet80

1.0.5 (2023-12-29)

• Merge pull request #14 from christophfroehlich/patch-1 Fix missing cmake config install rule
• Readd old configuration Co-authored-by: Sai Kishor Kothakota <<saisastra3@gmail.com>>
• Update CMakeLists.txt
• Contributors: Christoph Fröhlich, Sai Kishor Kothakota

1.0.4 (2023-12-04)

• Merge branch 'cmake' into 'foxy-devel' Implement it as a pure CMake library See merge request qa/backward_ros!4
• Remove INCLUDE_DIRS from package.xml
• Implement it as a pure CMake library
• Contributors: Adria Roig

1.0.3 (2023-11-14)

• Add website tag
• Contributors: Noel Jimenez

1.0.2 (2022-03-31)

• Merge pull request #11 from vatanaksoytezer/vatan/fix_fphsa Fix name mismatch warnings
• Fix name mismatch warnings
• Contributors: Jordan Palacios, Vatan Aksoy Tezer

1.0.1 (2021-07-14)

• Add missing ament_cmake dependency
• Contributors: Victor Lopez

1.0.0 (2021-07-13)

• Update backward.hpp from https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp
• Update README
• Update package.xml
• Adapt package to ROS2
• Contributors: Victor Lopez

0.1.7 (2019-01-11)

• Merge pull request #3 from veimox/bugfix/fix-tests-headers modified heders to be included with current cmake configuration
• modified heders to be included with current cmake configuration
• Contributors: Jorge Rodriguez, Victor Lopez

0.1.6 (2018-05-02)

• Replace #warning with #pragma message
• Update backward to the latest version
• Fx wrong LIBRARIES variable concatenation
• Contributors: Victor Lopez

0.1.5 (2018-04-27)

• Fixed version for finding libraries for catkin_make
• Resolve relative paths generated by catkin_make
• Merge branch 'fix_typos' into 'master' Fix typos in README.md See merge request qa/backward_ros!1
• Fix typos in README.md
• Change Readme.md so we put backward_ros specific information.
• Force backward lib to link with backward targets
• Contributors: Jordan Palacios, Victor, Victor Lopez

0.1.4 (2017-05-31)

• Rosify backward cpp, add automatic sighandle and rosconsole print
• Update doc about color mode & std::ostream.
• Fix typo in build link
• Merge pull request #62 from bryant1410/master Fix broken headings in Markdown files
• Add color mode. This is a breaking change. The printer now offers a color_mode setting: automatic, always, never. When given a FILE* stream on linux, the automatic mode will retrieve file descriptor behind it and call isatty().
• Merge branch 'print-to-streams' of https://github.com/ogdf/backward-cpp into ogdf-print-to-streams
• Fix broken Markdown headings
• Merge pull request #60 from ogdf/g++7-warnings Fix g++ 7.0.1 warnings
• enable tests that somebody thought it was a good idea to permanently disable.
• Only catch signals with a default action of "Core" Close #59
• Fix g++- 7.0.1 -Wshadow warnings in test lib
• Fix -Wshadow warnings from g++ 7.0.1
• Fix -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning from g++ 7.0.1 The fallthrough (missing break after a case in a switch) is not necessary. We can just move the whole default code move down after the switch.
• Merge pull request #58 from krf/fix-warning Fix -Wmissing-noreturn warning from Clang
• Fix -Wmissing-noreturn warning from Clang
• Merge pull request #56 from akreuzkamp/master Operator names are not supported by MSVC out of the box. Using them breaks code that needs to build with MSVC and/or (thus) uses "-fno-operator-names". As a header-only library should pursue maximal portability, this PR replaces the single usage of operator names with the more portable operator syntax.
• Use [&&]{.title-ref} instead of [and]{.title-ref}. Operator names are not supported by MSVC out of the box. Using them breaks code that needs to build with MSVC and/or (thus) uses "-fno-operator-names". As a header-only library should pursue maximal portability, this commit replaces the single usage of operator names with the more portable operator syntax.
• Merge pull request #57 from bombela/issue-55 Fix conanfile recipe
• [#55] Conan options are represented as attributes instead of map entries
• Revert "[#55] omit cmake options in conanfile build step" This reverts commit 06fb80378505d5792c8ce8dcadacdabb9ae45ce7.
• [#55] omit cmake options in conanfile build step
• conan recipe url field points to official repository
• Conan badge pointing to 1.3.0 release
• conan recipe pointing to 1.3.0 release
• Update travis ci badge to point to official builds
• conan.io package
• Merge pull request #49 from ruipires/master adds support for ppc architecture
• Run tests on Travis CI
• adds support for ppc architecture
• Merge pull request #45 from edisongustavo/master Add support to find_package(Backward)
• Add detailed instructions on how to use cmake to integrate Backward
• Prevent that the cmake variable BACKWARD_INCLUDE_DIRS be infinitely appended on successive cmake runs
• Don't use find_package() in CMakeLists.txt since it does not make sense
• Merge pull request #44 from ogdf/make-skip-public Make StackTraceImpl*::skip_n_firsts() setter public
• Merge pull request #43 from ogdf/make-context-sizes-configurable Printer: Make context sizes configurable
• Add install()
• Add support to find_package(Backward)
• Make StackTraceImpl*::skip_n_firsts() setter public When the stack trace is used directly (and not by a signal), one may want to hide some of the first stack items because they will always be the same calls.
• Printer: Make context sizes configurable
• Let Colorizer reset on initialization
• Make Printer::print methods available for streams
• Merge pull request #40 from Jiboo/master Don't append definitions if already cached
• Don't append definitions if already cached
• Merge pull request #39 from merlinthered/master Some CMake-related fixes
• Export BACKWARD_[...] CMake variables as cache variables If we do not export the variables set in BackwardMacros.cmake as cache variables, they will not be visible wherever add_backward() is called, and the macro will do nothing. Also, fix typo [BACKWARD_INCLUDE_DIR]{.title-ref} -> [BACKWARD_INCLUDE_DIRS]{.title-ref}
• Readme fixes/clarifications for CMake Fixed name of BACKWARD_ENABLE variable Changed "myproject" to "mytarget" to avoid confusion
• Merge pull request #34 from milianw/fix_bfd_compile_on_archlinux Define PACKAGE and PACKAGE_VERSION before including bfd.h
• Merge pull request #35 from vvjcarter/master Add current List directory so that BackwardMacros.cmake correctly inc…
• Add current List directory so that BackwardMacros.cmake correctly includes the directory
• Define PACKAGE and PACKAGE_VERSION before including bfd.h On ArchLinux at least the bfd.h header errors out early if PACKAGE or PACKAGE_VERSION have not been set. This patch makes backward.hpp compile on this platform for me.
• Merge pull request #33 from Manu343726/master Add ARM support
• Add ARM support
• Merge pull request #30 from akreuzkamp/master Split off cmake macros and dependency detection to BackwardMacros.cmake
• Merge pull request #31 from akreuzkamp/fixQtCompatibility Fix compatibility to Qt applications
• Rename variable "signals" to "unix_signals". This change is needed for compatibility to Qt applications. Qt defines a macro "signals" that expands to nothing and is used by Qt's meta object compiler (which is kind of a C++ pre-processor) to add signal-slot feature (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/signalsandslots.html). This will cause compilation of backward.hpp to fail, when used from a Qt application, because the variable "signals" will be expanded to "" by the cpp pre processor.
• Split off cmake macros and dependency detection. This commit seperates some of the CMake code into a BackwardMacros.cmake file. Including the CMakeLists.txt with add_subdirectory doesn't work, because the variables it defines won't be available from the including CMakeLists. With a .cmake file, they will. This change is backward-compatible, because CMakeLists.txt includes the BackwardMacros.cmake as well.
• Merge pull request #27 from gbitzes/master Fix typos in README code examples
• Fix typos in README code examples
• Try to get the CMakeLists.txt working and somewhat flexible.
• Merge pull request #23 from edisongustavo/master Compile in Visual Studio 2010
• Replace usages of alternative usages of boolean operators with more more standard ones since they don't compile in Visual Studio 2010. Replacements are:
  • 'and' => '&&'
  • 'or' => '||'

  - 'not' => '!' Also added some missing includes since MSVC was complaining of missing symbols.

• Update README.md Remove any references to TraceWithLocals since its not even part of the source anymore.
• Merge pull request #22 from edisongustavo/master Compilers with GLIBC < 2.10 don't have the psiginfo() function
• Compilers with GLIBC < 2.10 don't have the psiginfo() function
• Merge pull request #20 from hesiod/master Documentation
• Revert 0660344 Turns out I was wrong, we do need that command.
• Mark most cache values as advanced To avoid confusion, hide some configuration value from the normal user.
• Fix CMake style I erred concerning CMake variable naming conventions.
• Make feature detection values internal Previously, the "feature detection options" (STACK_DETAILS_* and STACK_WALKING_*) had to be manually set by an user, but now, we (attempt) to detect libraries based on find_library, thus we don't need those to be cache values anymore. Libraries in non-default paths can be manually added in the corresponding _PATH cache value and for testing purposes, users can also disable libraries by supplying an empty string.
• Fix message type Whoops, there is no INFO message type. Make it a WARNING instead.
• Remove unneeded CMake command Definitions are already included with add_backward.
• Describe CMake integration
• Merge pull request #19 from hesiod/patch-3 Fix typo
• Fix typo Should be backward_DEFINITIONS instead of BACKWARD_DEFINITIONS.
• Merge pull request #18 from hesiod/patch-2 Remove BACKWARD_ENABLE_ONLY_IN_DEBUG
• Remove BACKWARD_ENABLE_ONLY_IN_DEBUG Doesn't work (yet) because CMake lacks generator expressions when listing source files.
• Merge pull request #15 from hesiod/fix-clang-warning Fix compilation warning under clang
• Merge pull request #16 from hesiod/build-system Build system
• Require CMake 2.8.8 Object libraries were introduced in CMake 2.8.8. Signed-off-by: Tobias Markus <<tobias@markus-regensburg.de>>
• Fix compilation warning under clang Clang complains about adding const to a reference type having no effect. Fix this by adding and using a const_ref_t.
• Improve CMake build system, allow easy integration Make backward easier to use for CMake users, enabling easy feature detection and integration. We now detect presence of libdw, libbfd and libunwind directly in the script. The macro add_backward adds needed libraries, definitions and the include directory to a target. The pseudo-library enable_backward enables automatic backward processing for common failures to a target. If BACKWARD_ENABLE_ONLY_IN_DEBUG is set to true, automatic backward processing is only added when the build type is Debug or RelWithDebInfo. To integrate backward in an existing CMake project: add_subdirectory(/path/to/backward-cpp) add_executable(mytarget example.cpp ${backward_ENABLE}) add_backward(mytarget) BACKWARD_DEFINITIONS has been renamed to backward_DEFINITIONS to have a naming convention for public variables similiar to the find modules.
• Remove unneeded include directive There is no "include" directory in backward-cpp and hence no need to include it.
• Add option to disable test compilation
• Merge pull request #14 from hesiod/patch-1 Include current source directory
• Include current source directory When including the project from a parent directory (add_subdirectory), backward.hpp is not found by the tests because we include CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR, which is the parent's source directory. Include CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR instead.
• Merge pull request #13 from fabceolin/master Fixing buffer overflow on signals array
• Fixing buffer overflow on signals array
• stackoverflow test
• Tests refactored onto less files.
• Tests are all passing now.
• Better test checking
  • fork every test
  • capture signals
  • more assertion tools
  • test can be expected to fail
• Adding BACKWARD_HAS_* config in cmake for tests
• A more flexible and factorized stack Printer.
• Add defines for "ATLEAST_CXX11"
• A system specializable demangler implementation.
• Remove unused local var support (for now)
• Remove noisy comments.
• Little typo fix
• Add .gitignore
• Some improvement to builds.sh
• Merge pull request #11 from Kobolog/master Fixed an unused parameter warning.
• Proper way to mark a variable unused. Instead of explicitly void-ing a variable, just make it anonymous.
• Fix unused parameter warnings. In SignalHandling constructor, the empty signal vector is never used, which triggers unused parameter warnings at least on Clang 3.2.
• Merge pull request #10 from Kobolog/master Unsigned line counters.
• Resolve issue #6: unsigned line counters. Change all the line counter variable types from size_t to unsigned, so that we can printf() them as '%u' in a portable way, effectively fixing build errors on ancient i386 machines.
• Merge pull request #9 from bastih/master Remove debug printf
• Remove debug printf from SignalHandling()
• Merge pull request #7 from bastih/master Allow for selection of signals thanks \@bastih
• Add default parameter to BACKWARD_SYSTEN_UNKNOWN signal handler
• Improve as per bombela's suggestions, add test
• Merge branch 'buildfix'
• Remove non-existing testcase from CMakeLists
• Make signals configurable This allows for selecting the appropriate signals and avoids conflicts with other tools that specific signals i.e. profilers
• Merge pull request #5 from Kobolog/master Fixed using the placebo implementation on MacOS
• fixed a typo in the stacktrace_tag, which is fortunately unused as of now
• added an empty body to Colorize::init() method on non-Linux systems
• Use a dedicated stack for signals handler
• few modification for pedantic compliance with C++98 and C++11
• a little shell script to manipulate many builds
• Merge branch 'master' of github.com:bombela/backward-cpp
• Attribute Copyright to Google Inc.
• A little hack to declare _Unwind_GetIPInfo with clang. fixes #2
• Attribute Copyright to Google Inc.
• Merge pull request #1 from remram44/fix-readme Corrections to the README file
• Corrections to the README file
• Update README.md
• Some typo fixes.
• Initial import.
• Contributors: Andrey Sibiryov, Anton Kreuzkamp, Edison Gustavo Muenz, Fabrício Ceolin, François-Xavier Bourlet, Georgios Bitzes, Jean-Bapiste Lepesme, Kevin Funk, Manu343726, Marc Strämke, Milian Wolff, Remi Rampin, Rui Pires, Santiago Castro, Stephan Beyer, Tobias Markus, Victor Lopez, bastih, hesiod, merlinthered