android ndk r12d,Using NDK-STACK to Debug Cocos2dx Android Project

‘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