The invention discloses a method and device for stack backtracking. The method comprises a step of obtaining a memory value at a current FP-4 position, a step of determining a stack frame structure type used by a current function according to the memory value, and a step of obtaining a return address and a parent function frame pointer FP according to the stack frame structure type, wherein the current FP-4 is a memory address of moving the value of a current function FP toward a lower address direction by 4 bytes. According to the method and the device, an ARM system program stack frame structure can be automatically identified and processing is carried out according to different structures, so that a stack frame backtracking method can correctly backtrack the stacks of different stack frame structure programs, and the correctness and practicability of the stack frame backtracking method are greatly enhanced.