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                            ltrace

                   A Dynamic Library Tracer

     Copyright 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

Authors
Introduction
Where can I find it
How does it work
Where does it work
Bugs
License
Authors

ltrace has been developed mainly by Juan Cespedes cespedes@debian.org, but he has received many contributions from other people. The following people have contributed significantly to this project:

César Sánchez cesar.sanchez@imdea.org
Santiago Romero santiago.romero@imdea.org
Pat Beirne pbeirne@home.com (ARM port)
Roman Hodek Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de (m68k port)
Morten Eriksen mortene@sim.no (misc fixes)
Silvio Cesare silvio@big.net.au (ELF hacking)
Timothy Fesig slate@us.ibm.com (S390 port)
Anton Blanchard anton@samba.org (Powerpc port)
Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com (SPARC port, support for libelf, many fixes)
Jakub Bogusz qboosh@pld-linux.org (alpha port)
SuSE (amd64 port)
Ian Wienand ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au (IA64 port)
Eric Vaitl evaitl@cisco.com (mipsel port)
Petr Machata pmachata@redhat.com (misc fixes)
Joe Damato ice799@gmail.com (libdl support, libunwind support)

Introduction

ltrace is a debugging tool, similar to strace, but it traces library calls instead of system calls.

Where can I find it

http://www.ltrace.org

How does it work

Using software breakpoints, just like gdb.

Where does it work

It works with ELF based Linux systems running on i386, m68k, S/390, ARM, PowerPC, PowerPC64, IA64, AMD64, SPARC and Alpha processors.

It is part of at least Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake...

Bugs

Too many to list here :). If you like to submit a bug report, or a feature request, either do that against the Debian `ltrace' package, or mail ltrace-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.

This file is very incomplete and out-of-date.

License

Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

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