[Lula] recommendations on code tracing tools

[Steve Redlich]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, al at danial.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:10:15 -0700
> From: "al at danial.org" <al.danial at verizon.net>
> To: lula at lula.org
> Subject: [Lula] recommendations on code tracing tools
> 
> I've got a huge package of source code I'm trying to understand.
> Say the source code to Perl.
>
> What I want to be able to do is see the name of each function
> as execution enters and leaves that function, in other words,
> the dynamic call graph of the functions in that package.  The
> output might look like
>    entering main
>    entering init
>    entering populate_X
>    leaving  populate_X
>    entering populate_Y
>    entering set_y1
>    leaving  set_y1
>    leaving  populate_Y
>    leaving  init
>         :
>    leaving   main
Al,

Take a look at Sun's DTrace.

Steve
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