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1 ltrace 2 3 A Dynamic Library Tracer 4 5 Copyright 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> 6 7 8Contents 9-------- 10 0. Authors 11 1. Introduction 12 2. Where can I find it 13 3. How does it work 14 4. Where does it work 15 5. Bugs 16 6. License 17 18 190. Authors 20---------- 21 22ltrace has been developed mainly by Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>, 23but he has received many contributions from other people. The following 24people have contributed significantly to this project: 25 26* Pat Beirne <pbeirne@home.com> (ARM port) 27* Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (m68k port) 28* Morten Eriksen <mortene@sim.no> (misc fixes) 29* Silvio Cesare <silvio@big.net.au> (ELF hacking) 30* Timothy Fesig <slate@us.ibm.com> (S390 port) 31* Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> (Powerpc port) 32* Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> (SPARC port, support for libelf, many fixes) 33* Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org> (alpha port) 34* SuSE (amd64 port) 35* Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> (IA64 port) 36* Eric Vaitl <evaitl@cisco.com> (mipsel port) 37* Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com> (misc fixes) 38 391. Introduction 40--------------- 41 42ltrace is a debugging tool, similar to strace, but it traces library 43calls instead of system calls. 44 452. Where can I find it 46---------------------- 47 48http://www.ltrace.org 49 503. How does it work 51------------------- 52 53Using software breakpoints, just like gdb. 54 554. Where does it work 56--------------------- 57 58It works with ELF based Linux systems running on i386, m68k, S/390, 59ARM, PowerPC, PowerPC64, IA64, AMD64, SPARC and Alpha processors. 60 61It is part of at least Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat, SuSE and Mandrake. 62 635. Bugs 64------- 65 66Too many to list here :). If you like to submit a bug report, or a 67feature request, either do that against the Debian `ltrace' package, 68or mail ltrace-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org. 69 70This file is very incomplete and out-of-date. 71 726. License 73---------- 74 75 Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> 76 77 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 78 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 79 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 80 (at your option) any later version. 81 82 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 83 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 84 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 85 GNU General Public License for more details. 86 87 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along 88 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 89 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 90 91