Instrumentation using -finstrument-functions

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Fri Dec 23 20:03:00 GMT 2011


Nipun Arora <nipun2512@gmail.com> writes:

> I have been looking into instrumentation using -finstrument-functions. I see
> that in the steps there is an exclude file list which does not instrument
> any functions in the exclude file list specified at compile time.
>
> However is there anyway to do an include file list instead. I want to
> instrument only the application code functions, and not c library or system
> functions. Would some sort of regex work for this?
>
>
> Essentially if the scenario is this that I want to use
> -finstrument-functions to only instrument functions belonging to /foo/src/..
> how can I achieve this? since only exclude file functionality is given.

There is no reverse of -finstrument-functions-exclude-file-list.  The
only real way to do what you want is to only use -finstrument-functions
when compiling the files in /foo/src/....

Ian



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