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echo: os2prog
to: Russell Coker
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1996-04-27 04:05:48
subject: strace/2

RC>   Does anyone know of a facility for OS/2 similar to 
 RC> the strace program under
 RC> UNIX to list the API calls that a program makes.

IBM's compiler comes with a profiler that will do this, sort of.

It comes with a special set of "redirection" libraries called
_DOSCAL.LIB, _PMWIN.LIB and _PMGPI.LIB.  This libraries cause an event to
be logged in the profiling database when the program runs.

After your program has terminated,  you can use the profile analysis tools
to see which (and when,  if you like) the calls were made.


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