Hi all,
Re: recent debugging / library topics, I thought I'd share my latest
find and ask for pointers too. I recently read ld(1); it is not a page
turner, at least not until I saw --wrap. 4 lines of code is a thousand
words, so:
void *__wrap_malloc (int c)
{
printf ("malloc called with %ld\n", c);
return __real_malloc(c);
}
It lets you put a wrapper around arbitrary functions .. without playing
tricks with #define!
This would've helped me finding a bug in tar (!) a few days ago, instead
of manually wrapping each occurance of free(). [1].
Hey, does anyone know if people actually read the debian-glibc list?
The tar bug is actually a glibc problem, [2], and nobody's commented on
the list or on the bug. And I don't feel like making a sources.redhat
account to report it in upstream bugzilla..
Now my question. Is there a package (debian or otherwise) which will
show me the possible function call paths? I want something that will
look through code and show me (graphically maybe) that X calls Y which
calls Z which calls X, so there's recursion there, and A calls B and C
calls D in a loop. Maybe even smart enough to deal with conditions (E
calls F _or_ G). Ideas?
Thanks,
--
Justin
aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor x11iraf wcstools pyraf
http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/
References
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-08/msg00004.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=262782
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