Re: Re: instrumenting ELF executables

Mihai Christodorescu <mihai@cs.wisc.edu>
27 Mar 2001 23:32:58 -0500

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From:	Mihai Christodorescu <mihai@cs.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.compilers
Date:	27 Mar 2001 23:32:58 -0500
Organization:	UWisc - CS Dept - http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~mihai
References:	01-03-114 01-03-117
Keywords:	linker, performance
Cc:	compilers@iecc.com
Posted-Date:	27 Mar 2001 23:32:58 EST

> I am working on a problem to generate the execution profile of a
> program, now that requires instrumenting the code with some
> profiling func calls at appropriate positions. Here I am dealing
> with sun executables(in ELF format). The question is how do I do
> the required using the elf library routines. [ ... ]

You might want to take a look at:

* Paradyn http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~paradyn
* DynInst http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/dyninstAPI
* EEL http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/eel.html
* QPT http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/qpt.html

Mihai

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