Dynamic Instrumentation of C++ Applications on IA-64

摘要

Dynamic instrumentation is the process of modifying a program's binary instructions on the fly while the program executes. This technique is used in a wide variety of tools for performance analysis, profiling, coverage analysis, correctness checking, and testing. Instrumenting applications generated from C++ sources reveals new complications, mainly caused by the C++ exception handling mechanism. This paper presents problems, solutions and experiences specific to dynamic instrumentation of multi-threaded C++ applications for HP-UX running on IA-64 processors.