My leaky memory says we moved entry-point into some form of debug record in the standard libraries, circa Solaris 8/9.
Before that, my group maintained text files that listed all the entry-points and their parameters for libraries like libc.so, so that we could print out parameter values in apptrace(8). There's a (small) chance the records are complete enough that dtrace could use the debug records from the system libraries, and in principle any library with the right information available. I *don't* know whether they are complete enough: that was done after my time in the ABI team. --dave Jon Haslam <jonathan.has...@sun.com> wrote: > Yes, having user-land type information would allow you > to do what you want here. As I said, it's something we know > users would like but it would be a piece of work to implement. "P. Remek" <p.rem...@googlemail.com> asked: >> First thing that crossed my mind: We provide application to our customers >> and we provide support for it. When we release new version there are usually >> issues reported by customer. After some time I've realized that most of >> the issues (let's say 50%) will appear (or let's say affect) >> function's parameters >> on some level of execution. Right now we have tracing macros directly >> compiled into our application for each function's return/exit which >> logs function > > parameters as well as function name. By observing it I am usually able >> to quickly locate >> culprit of the issue. Problem is that we have to maintain all those >> tracing macros >> in the code. With dtrace I am able to get only function's name (as it >> is in ABI) >> with one general "pid$1:::entry". As per my understanding there is no >> way to define >> function parameters logging generally.I would need to let's say >> include header file >> with function's prototypes and manually create probe for each >> function. To have > > better idea there is an application which I have tried which does > > similar thing on > > windows platform: www.autodebug.com. > > > > Remek -- David Collier-Brown | Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest dav...@sun.com | -- Mark Twain cell: (647) 833-9377, bridge: (877) 385-4099 code: 506 9191# _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org
