Shawn Erickson wrote on Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:56 AM: > DTrace is probe based. If a probe exists and is enabled it > will fire and allow you to collect information. > > For example try the following in terminal... > > sudo dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry' > > With that said you need a provider that provides the probe > points that you need. Apple has implemented many providers in > 10.5. For example you can probe many aspects of message > dispatch in the objective-c runtime or syscalls without any > need to instrument your code. In terminal run "sudo dtrace > -l" to see a list of providers in the system. > > I don't believe an Apple provider exist (or can exist) for > general probing of C++ or C function entry and exit. You will > have to instrument C++ methods and C function (aka make your > own provider) to be able to use DTrace for what I think you > are attempting to do.
...which is sort of what I'm doing now using -finstrument-functions. BTW, I tried dladdr, but I ended up with the probe effect something awful. I'm sticking to my original method of writing everything to syslog, and then parsing that out with a script. Thanks for the help in trying to figure this out. Thanks, Cem Karan _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
