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+# Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Contributed by David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com>.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see
+# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Get the 1-based line for LINENUM from FILENAME as a string
+
+proc get_line { filename linenum } {
+ set f [open $filename]
+ set lines [split [read $f] \n]
+ close $f
+ return [lindex $lines [expr $linenum - 1] ]
+}
+
+# Print a backtrace of the Tcl interpreter's stack, showing
+# frames, levels, source file and line where available.
+#
+# This isn't used anywhere, but is occasionally very helpful
+# to use when debugging.
+
+proc print_stack_backtrace {} {
+ set current_frame_level [info frame]
+ puts "VVV START OF BACKTRACE VVV"
+ for {set i [expr $current_frame_level - 1]} {$i > 0} {incr i -1} {
+ set frame [info frame $i]
+ if { [dict exists $frame "level"] } {
+ set level_num [dict get $frame "level"]
+ set relative_level_offset [expr 1 - $level_num]
+ set level [info level $relative_level_offset]
+ set procname [lindex $level 0]
+ # TODO: args = rest of $level, but this can be very long
+ } else {
+ set procname ""
+ }
+ set suffix ""
+ if { $procname != "" } {
+ set suffix " in proc $procname"
+ }
+ if { [dict get $frame "type"] == "source" } {
+ set fname [dict get $frame "file"]
+ set line [dict get $frame "line"]
+ puts " $fname:$line: frame $i$suffix"
+ puts " $line | [get_line $fname $line]"
+ } else {
+ set type [dict get $frame "type"]
+ puts " <$type>: frame $i$suffix"
+ }
+ }
+ puts "^^^ END OF BACKTRACE ^^^"
+}