CygProfiler suite

CygProfiler is a set of functions for use with gcc's -finstrument-functions option. See info page of gcc for details and description of this option.

To use it, compile your program with -finstrument-functions and link together with cyg-profile.c. Somewhere at the beginning of the program call cygprofile_enable() to start logging all function entries and exits into a logfile.

By default the name of the logfile is cyglog.$PID, but you can set a different one using cygprofile_setfilename(). To get current logfile name use cygprofile_getfilename(). To see if logging is enabled use cygprofile_isenabled(). You can stop logging by calling cygprofile_disable().

Note that subsequent enabling of logging will overwrite the previous log with the same name!

After you have created a logfile run cyg-resolve.pl with the program name that created the logfile as a first argument and the logfile name as a second argument. On stdout you'll see a log of all instrumentalized functions invoked while logging was enabled.

Example for plain C:
$ gcc -finstrument-functions -o test test.c cyg-profile.c
$ ./test
Logfile: cyglog.1234
$ ./cyg-resolve.pl test cyglog.1234
Loading symbols from test ... OK
Seen 65 symbols, stored 22 function offsets
Level correction set to 0
        +  0 0x80486a9 (from 0x804872f)  function3()
        +  1 0x804866d (from 0x80486c8)   function2()
        +  2 0x8048634 (from 0x804868c)    function1()
done
As you can see - function3() called function2() which then called function1(). Function main() isn't in the list, because the profiling was not yet enabled at the time it was called.
Example for C++:
gcc -c cyg-profile.c
$ g++ -finstrument-functions -c test.cxx
$ g++ -o test test.o cyg-profile.o
$ ./test
Logfile: cyglog.1234
$ ./cyg-resolve.pl test cyglog.1234
Loading symbols from test ... OK
Seen 78 symbols, stored 25 function offsets
Level correction set to 1
        +  1 0x400d1c (from 0x400dcb)   _ZN4test9function3Ec()
        +  2 0x400cd4 (from 0x400d48)    _ZN4test9function2Ei()
        +  3 0x400c98 (from 0x400d01)     _ZN4test9function1El()
        +  0 0x400e3e (from 0x2a95ae2c8b)  __tcf_0()
done
The usage is similar to the plain C case. Unfortunately you'll only see the mangled function names, e.g. _ZN4test9function3Ec instead of int test::function3(char c).
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