An API for Runtime Code Patching

• Bryan Buck

  Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park

• Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth

  Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park

抄録

The authors present a postcompiler program manipulation tool called Dyninst, which provides a C++ class library for program instrumentation. Using this library, it is possible to instrument and modify application programs during execution. A unique feature of this library is that it permits machine-independent binary instrumentation programs to be written. The authors describe the interface that a tool sees when using this library. They also discuss three simple tools built using this interface: a utility to count the number of times a function is called, a program to capture the output of an already running program to a file, and an implementation of conditional breakpoints. For the conditional breakpoint example, the authors show that by using their interface compared with gdb, they are able to execute a program with conditional breakpoints up to 900 times faster.

収録刊行物

• The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

  The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 14 (4), 317-329, 2000-11

  SAGE Publications

キーワード

• Hardware and Architecture
• Theoretical Computer Science
• Software

詳細情報

• CRID: 1361699994089072640
• NII論文ID: 30007042203
• DOI: 10.1177/109434200001400404
• ISSN: 17412846
• ISSN: 10943420
• Web Site: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/109434200001400404
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