[Ltrace-devel] Support for systemtap probes in ltrace

Steve Fink sphink at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 05:47:26 UTC 2011


On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> SDT probes are used by some application--typically, they are placed to
> "strategic" places, such as when MySQL parses a query, or when OpenJDK
> compiles a method.  I believe it would be useful for ltrace to be able
> to put breakpoints on these.

I will soon be adding Firefox to that list (well, really just the
Javascript interpreter within Firefox). But that makes me curious --
how are you planning to use this functionality?



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