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justin
justin

Reputation: 3607

Erlang tracer source code

Does anybody know which Erlang source files are responsible for its tracer (the trace BIF).

I am looking into the possibility of synchronous tracing in Erlang (where the monitored process waits for go-ahead from the monitoring process receiving the trace messages). For now I'm trying to decide whether to try modifying Erlang's source code or generate a parser for this sort of thing. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 190

Answers (1)

Warren Young
Warren Young

Reputation: 42343

I believe you want to look at erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_trace.c first, as that implements trace/3 and friends. (trace/3 is implemented by the C function trace_3(), for example.)

You may also be interested in erl_trace.c, which looks to be the functions that do a lot of the tracing work for the emulator.

Upvotes: 2

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