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1 ltrace 2 3 A Dynamic Library Tracer 4 5 Copyright 1997-2004 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---------- 21ltrace has been developed mainly by Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>, 22but he has received many contributions from other people. The following 23people have contributed significantly to this project: 24 25* Pat Beirne <pbeirne@home.com> (ARM port) 26* Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (m68k port) 27* Morten Eriksen <mortene@sim.no> (misc fixes) 28* Silvio Cesare <silvio@big.net.au> (ELF hacking) 29* Timothy Fesig <slate@us.ibm.com> (S390 port) 30* Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> (Powerpc port) 31* Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> (SPARC port, support for libelf, many fixes) 32* Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org> (alpha port) 33* SuSE (amd64 port) 34 351. Introduction 36--------------- 37ltrace is a debugging tool, similar to strace, but it traces library 38calls instead of system calls. 39 402. Where can I find it 41---------------------- 42At the moment, it's only available as a Debian package. Please let 43me know if you distribute it any other way. 44 45You may find it at: 46 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/ltrace/ 47 48Alternatively, you may find it in any Debian mirror. For more info, 49see ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors 50 513. How does it work 52------------------- 53Using software breakpoints, just like gdb. 54 554. Where does it work 56--------------------- 57At the time of writting, it works only with ELF32 executables. It only 58works in Linux, and it only works on some architectures (i386, m68k, 59S/390, ARM, PowerPC, amd64, SPARC and alpha processors). 60 61It is part of at least Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat, SuSE and Mandrake. 62 635. Bugs 64------- 65Too many to list here :). If you like to submit a bug report, or a 66feature request, either do that against the Debian `ltrace' package, 67or mail ``Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>''. 68 69This file is very incomplete and out-of-date. 70 716. License 72---------- 73 Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> 74 75 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 76 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 77 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 78 (at your option) any later version. 79 80 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 81 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 82 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 83 GNU General Public License for more details. 84 85 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 86 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 87 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, 88 MA 02111-1307, USA. 89 90