Automate gdb: show backtrace every 10 ms.

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Hello

I want to write a script for gdb, which will save backtrace (stack) of process every 10 ms. How can I do this?

It can be smth like call graph profiling for 'penniless' (for people, who can't use any sort of advanced profiler).

Yes, there are a lot of advanced profilers. For popular CPUs and for popular OSes. Shark is very impressive and easy to use, but I want to get a basic functionality with such script, working with gdb.

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