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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2013
Rackspace Us, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Paul Voccio, Windcrest, TX (US);
Matthew Charles Dietz, San Antonio, TX (US);
Rackspace US, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and methods are provided for function-specific tracing of a program. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a trace profile identifying one or more functions of a target program, wherein the trace profile identifies one or more functions to trace and depth of tracing for each function to be traced, loading the trace profile and the target program, identifying traced functions in the target program based on the trace profile, patching the target program to call a trace parameter for one or more functions, wherein traced functions are declared at runtime, and observing function calls for traced functions of the application. In this regard, individual functions are traced and debugged on a function-by-function basis without modifying the code or pre-arranging functions so they are traceable. As such, the scope of tracing may be dynamically limited to yield only information that is desired.