whocalls

 

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 User Commands                                         whocalls(1)
 
 
 


NAME
      whocalls - report on the calls to a specific procedure.
 


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


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
      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
      %
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
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     | Availability                | SUNWtoo                     |
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SEE ALSO
      ld.so.1(1), sotruss(1), attributes(5)
 
      Linker and Libraries Guide
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8           Last change: 24 Jan 1997                    1
 
 
 

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