Assuming you only want to be notified for specific functions, you can do it like this:
compile with debug informations (as you already have symbol informations, you probably also have enough debugs in)
given
#include <iostream>
int fac(int n) {
if(n == 0)
return 1;
return n * fac(n-1);
}
int main()
{
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
std::cout << fac(i) << std::endl;
}
Use gdb to trace:
[js@HOST2 cpp]$ g++ -g3 test.cpp
[js@HOST2 cpp]$ gdb ./a.out
(gdb) b fac
Breakpoint 1 at 0x804866a: file test.cpp, line 4.
(gdb) commands 1
Type commands for when breakpoint 1 is hit, one per line.
End with a line saying just "end".
>silent
>bt 1
>c
>end
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/js/cpp/a.out
#0 fac (n=0) at test.cpp:4
1
#0 fac (n=1) at test.cpp:4
#0 fac (n=0) at test.cpp:4
1
#0 fac (n=2) at test.cpp:4
#0 fac (n=1) at test.cpp:4
#0 fac (n=0) at test.cpp:4
2
#0 fac (n=3) at test.cpp:4
#0 fac (n=2) at test.cpp:4
#0 fac (n=1) at test.cpp:4
#0 fac (n=0) at test.cpp:4
6
Program exited normally.
(gdb)
Here is what i do to collect all function’s addresses:
tmp=$(mktemp)
readelf -s ./a.out | gawk '
{
if($4 == "FUNC" && $2 != 0) {
print "# code for " $NF;
print "b *0x" $2;
print "commands";
print "silent";
print "bt 1";
print "c";
print "end";
print "";
}
}' > $tmp;
gdb --command=$tmp ./a.out;
rm -f $tmp
Note that instead of just printing the current frame(bt 1
), you can do anything you like, printing the value of some global, executing some shell command or mailing something if it hits the fatal_bomb_exploded
function 🙂 Sadly, gcc outputs some “Current Language changed” messages in between. But that’s easily grepped out. No big deal.