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Re: 'recording' program execution.

From: wuxi <wu dot andrew dot xi at gmail dot com>
To: muenchen at physik dot uni-wuppertal dot de
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Edward Peschko <horos11 at gmail dot com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:18:07 +0800
Subject: Re: 'recording' program execution.
References: <5cfa99000810301213v11fe62b4h5199f89a942d16da@mail.gmail.com> <10118.77.8.182.4.1225439813.squirrel@mail.physik.uni-wuppertal.de>

muenchen@physik.uni-wuppertal.de wrote:

have a look at the flag -finstrument-functions for gcc.

as far as I know, this could only record at function entry and return ?

but sometimes recording all the "trace" of how program behaves is useful for debugging purpose.

further, using a binary instrumentation tool like PIN could only record the low level instruction trace....

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