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In computing<\/a>, a stack trace<\/strong> (also called stack backtrace<\/strong> or stack traceback<\/strong>) is a report of the active stack frames<\/a> at a certain point in time during the execution of a program<\/a>. When a program is run, memory is often dynamically allocated in two places; the stack and the heap. Memory is continuously allocated on a stack but not on a heap, thus reflective of their names. Stack also refers to a programming construct, thus to differentiate it, this stack is referred to as the program’s runtime stack<\/a><\/strong>. Technically, once a block of memory has been allocated on the stack, it cannot be easily removed as there can be other blocks of memory that were allocated before it. Each time a function is called in a program, a block of memory is allocated on top of the runtime stack called the activation record<\/strong> (or stack pointer.) At a high level, an activation record allocates memory for the function’s parameters and local variables declared in the function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programmers commonly use stack tracing during interactive and post-mortem debugging<\/a>. End-users may see a stack trace displayed as part of an error message<\/a>, which the user can then report to a programmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A stack trace allows tracking the sequence of nested functions<\/a> called – up to the point where the stack trace is generated. In a post-mortem scenario this extends up to the function where the failure occurred (but was not necessarily caused). Sibling calls<\/a> do not appear in a stack trace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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