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-rw-r--r--Carpet/CarpetLib/src/backtrace.cc4
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diff --git a/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/backtrace.cc b/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/backtrace.cc
index dc7c76812..fbac6e5c8 100644
--- a/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/backtrace.cc
+++ b/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/backtrace.cc
@@ -500,6 +500,10 @@ namespace CarpetLib {
cerr << "Writing backtrace to " << filename << endl;
myfile.open(filename.c_str());
generate_backtrace(myfile);
+ myfile << "\n"
+ << "The hexadecimal addresses in this backtrace can also be interpreted\n"
+ << "with a debugger (e.g. gdb), or with the 'addr2line' (or 'gaddr2line')\n"
+ << "command line tool.\n";
myfile.close();
}