[Ltrace-devel] Support for systemtap probes in ltrace

[Petr Machata]

Steve Fink <sphink at gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

I don't plan adding SDT probes to ltrace, I want ltrace to be able to
"see" and trace the probes.  Is that what you had in mind?

PM