Yesterday Toshok wrote me a little gdb script to print a monoificated stacktrace in gdb. That was nice of him, but not exactly what I was looking for. What I really wanted was an entirely managed stack trace that I could print out with a single function call. Thanks to the thread dumping stuff Zoltan added a few weeks ago, you can use this gdb script I wrote to do this:

define mono_stack
 set $mono_thread = mono_thread_current ()
 if ($mono_thread == 0x00)
   printf "No mono thread associated with this thread\n"
 else
   set $ucp = malloc (sizeof (ucontext_t))
   call (void) getcontext ($ucp)
   call (void) mono_print_thread_dump ($ucp)
   call (void) free ($ucp)
 end
end

(Is there a way to allocate stuff on the “stack” with gdb?)

Anyway, this works well for me, and so I’ve added it to the wiki.