detecting function calls

[IAMTubby]

OK, let's return to your original post 3 weeks ago, and take your example source and put it in a file fun.c.

Now take this code and put it in a file called dotrace.sh

#!/bin/bash

image="$1"

echo "Functions called are as follows"
for line in $(egrep '^E' trace.txt)
do
    address=$(echo $line | sed 's/^.//')
    function_name=$(addr2line -e $image -f -s $address | head -1)
    echo ${function_name}'()'
done

Now let's go to my first reply which referred to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...ry/l-graphvis/ and said:

The source code for that article is linked on the above page, so let's get it and use it.

$ chmod +x ./dotrace.sh
$ wget http://www.mtjones.com/developerworks/pvtrace.zip
$ unzip pvtrace.zip
$ gcc -g -finstrument-functions -o fun fun.c pvtrace/instrument.c
$ ./fun
$ ./dotrace.sh
Functions called are as follows
main()
fun1()
fun2()
fun2_1()
fun3()

The output is precisely what you described in your first post. Is this what you still want? I'm afraid I've lost track somewhat.

Of course there's scope for improvement to the above script and the trace that is always written to ./trace.txt. However, the basic functionality is what you first described.

Sir, thanks a lot for the reply. I'm trying. Will get back to you in an hour's time.

[IAMTubby]

OK, let's return to your original post 3 weeks ago, and take your example source and put it in a file fun.c.

Now take this code and put it in a file called dotrace.sh

#!/bin/bash

image="$1"

echo "Functions called are as follows"
for line in $(egrep '^E' trace.txt)
do
    address=$(echo $line | sed 's/^.//')
    function_name=$(addr2line -e $image -f -s $address | head -1)
    echo ${function_name}'()'
done

Now let's go to my first reply which referred to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...ry/l-graphvis/ and said:

The source code for that article is linked on the above page, so let's get it and use it.

$ chmod +x ./dotrace.sh
$ wget http://www.mtjones.com/developerworks/pvtrace.zip
$ unzip pvtrace.zip
$ gcc -g -finstrument-functions -o fun fun.c pvtrace/instrument.c
$ ./fun
$ ./dotrace.sh
Functions called are as follows
main()
fun1()
fun2()
fun2_1()
fun3()

The output is precisely what you described in your first post. Is this what you still want? I'm afraid I've lost track somewhat.

Of course there's scope for improvement to the above script and the trace that is always written to ./trace.txt. However, the basic functionality is what you first described.

Sir, I guess I'm doing a small mistake somewhere, This is the output I get

Functions called are as follows
addr2line: '-f': No such file
()
addr2line: '-f': No such file
()
addr2line: '-f': No such file
()
addr2line: '-f': No such file
()
addr2line: '-f': No such file
()
addr2line: '-f': No such file
()
addr2line: '-f': No such file
()

[spjackson]

My mistake. I originally had the program name fixed in the script. It is now an argument.

./dotrace.sh fun

There is a bit of a clue on line 3 of the script.

image="$1"

[IAMTubby]

My mistake. I originally had the program name fixed in the script. It is now an argument.

./dotrace.sh fun

There is a bit of a clue on line 3 of the script.

image="$1"

Sir, that was wonderful. Thanks a lot, it works fine.
However, I have 1 more question in something that's not entirely related to the thread, but necessary for me to get my application working.
I have a lot of files in an application I'm working on. Is there a way to add this line

gcc -g -finstrument-functions -o fun fun.c pvtrace/instrument.c

to all of those files from maybe the shell(as in, without editing individual makefiles, far too many to edit individually).
The gcc part of my makefiles look like this,

%.o : %.cpp
        $(GXX) $< -o $@ $(CFLAGS)

or

main.o: $(DIR)/main.c
        $(CC) -c $? $(CFLAGS)

Thanks a lot Sir for the help.

[IAMTubby]

Now let's go to my first reply which referred to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...ry/l-graphvis/

Sir, the learning resource you gave me was excellent. Thanks a lot . I found it very helpful.

Maybe, our very own ubuntuforums.org should follow the graph kind of an approach, by which, this reply would have come under your post, 2 posts back, instead of coming in serial order of date/time posted. Will make it easier for a person viewing this thread after 5 years. Just a random thought

Still figuring out a way to apply the change to all the files in my application..

[IAMTubby]

Sir, I would like to ask the above question on a different thread, not to mix with the original discussion.
Marking the thread as solved. But, further replies about the makefile option would be more than welcome.
Thanks a lot once again!

PS : The thread about a possible make option is on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...8#post12329538

[IAMTubby]

./dotrace.sh fun

Sir,This is 1 week old, but I have a question.

I got the trace working with the dotrace.sh script you provided.But I'm not able to get the graph trace. I tried running

dot -Tjpg graph.dot -o graph.jpg

.
This is what I get on running the above

 
$ dot -Tjpg graph.dot -o graph.jpg
-bash: dot: command not found

I do have the necessary files. This is the output of ls

dotrace.sh  fun.c     graph.dot     pvtrace       trace.txtfun         gmon.out  instrument.c  pvtrace.zip

I tried to read the manual for dot utility mentioned in the Resources on the webpage you gave, but it says "Page not found"

Please advise.
Thanks.

[spjackson]

$ dot
The program 'dot' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install graphviz

[IAMTubby]

$ dot
The program 'dot' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install graphviz

Sir, Yes I got it working
But may I ask just 1 more question on this topic. I did a sudo apt-get remove after getting it to work, because I wanted to install from source. I found the source at http://www.graphviz.org/Download_source.php and successfully did a sudo make install in ~/Desktop/local.
These are the steps I followed

wget http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/stable/SOURCES/graphviz-2.28.0.tar.gz
unzip graphviz-2.28.0.tar.gz
cd graphviz-2.28.0
mkdir -p $HOME/local
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make clean
make
make install

Now my ~/Desktop/graphviz-2.28.0 contains

aclocal.m4       config.h.in    doc                 iffe         Makefile.old
ast_common.h     config.h.old   dot.demo            INSTALL      NEWS
ast_common.h.in  config.iffe    Doxyfile            INSTALL.old  plugin
AUTHORS          config.log     Doxyfile.in         lib          plugin.demo
autogen.sh       Config.mk.old  FEATURE             libltdl      README
awk              config.status  features            libtool      rtest
builddate.h      configure      graphs              m4           share
ChangeLog        configure.ac   graphviz.7          macosx       stamp-h1
cmd              configure.old  graphviz.sln        makearch     tclpkg
compat_getopt.h  contrib        graphviz.spec       Makeargs     windows
compat.h         COPYING        graphviz.spec.in    Makefile
config           cpl1.0.txt     graphviz.vcproj     Makefile.am
config.h         debian         graphviz_version.h  Makefile.in

and ~/Desktop/local contains

bin  include  lib  share

How do I proceed ?
When I try doing dot -Tjpg graph.dot -o graph.jpg, it still gives me the error

The program 'dot' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install graphviz

Thanks.