Logging function calls
Federico Maggi <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:42:53 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.nspr |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello, I am working on a branch of mozila-central for a research project: I needed to log every NSPR call while Firefox runs. To this end, I wrote a simple macro that calls syslog() and passes __func__ to it: this is all I need, although it might sound very idiotic. I only miss one thing: I would like to be able to separate/isolate the log entries per URL. More precisely, at this moment what I get looks like: [...] slog: pr_FindSymbolInProg slog: PR_GetPageSize slog: GetPageSize slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc [...] slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: _MD_EarlyInit slog: _PR_InitLocks slog: _PR_InitAtomic [...] What I would like to achieve is something like the following: [...] slog: pr_FindSymbolInProg slog: PR_GetPageSize slog: URL http://www.example.com is being loaded <----- [begin] slog: GetPageSize slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv [...] slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: URL http://www.example.com is fully loaded <----- [end] slog: PR_GetEnv slog: PR_Calloc slog: PR_GetEnv slog: _MD_EarlyInit slog: _PR_InitLocks slog: _PR_InitAtomic [...] Do you think it's possible to trace such events down into NSPR? If not, what would you suggest do to? Since I am at an early stage of development, I am open also to dramatic changes in the logging approach. Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Fede