Re: Breakpoint when entering of functions on i386

["yichun wang" <wangych@gmail.com>]

GDB is easy to interact and control, for example, one feature of my
script is to start print calling graph after hit some function (just a
breakpoint),  or to print the value of arguments. It can simply give
you many controls of program, for source level to assembly level, with
little programming job.

Other tools could be also possible, for example, a plugin to
valgrind/callgrind will also work, but it may require more knowledge
and programming. Currently I'm using perl+gdb, except performance, the
script works just fine.

-Yichun.

On Nov 27, 2007 3:25 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Michael,  to define an "interesting subset" should improve the
> > performance , but I need generate call graph for many different
> > applications, and this script won't have any knowledge of the
> > application, so this might not work...
>
> Is there a reason why you have to use GDB instead of a more specialized
> tool?
>
> --
> Joel
>