[Lula] recommendations on code tracing tools

[al@danial.org]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:00:16PM -0700, Steve Redlich wrote:
> 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

dtrace looks promising and I'll give it a whirl at work where I 
have access to Sun boxes.  

However I'm looking for a tool that can run on Linux so I can 
use it at home.       -- Al

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