whocalls(1)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO

NAME

whocalls- report on the calls to a specific procedure.

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ccs/bin/whocalls whocalls [-l wholib] funcname executable [executablearguements...]

DESCRIPTION

whocalls is a simple example of a utility based on the Link-Auditing library, which permits the tracking of a given function call. See Linker and Libraries Guide The executable is run as normal. Each time the procedure funcname is called, both the arguments to that procedure and a stack trace are displayed on standard output.

OPTIONS

-l wholib

Specify an alternate who.so Link-Auditing library to use.

EXAMPLES

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Example 1 A sample of the whocalls command.




This examples tracks the calls to printf( ) made by a simple hello_world program

% whocalls printf hello printf(0x106e4, 0xef625310, 0xef621ba8) hello:main+0x10 hello:_start+0x5c hello %

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ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWtoo

SEE ALSO

ld.so.1(1), sotruss(1), attributes(5)

Linker and Libraries Guide

SunOS 5.8  Last Revised 24 Jan 1997

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO