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                                ltrace

                       A Dynamic Library Tracer

         Copyright 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <[email protected]>


Contents
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 0. Authors
 1. Introduction
 2. Where can I find it
 3. How does it work
 4. Where does it work
 5. Bugs
 6. License


0. Authors
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ltrace has been developed mainly by Juan Cespedes <[email protected]>,
but he has received many contributions from other people.  The following
people have contributed significantly to this project:

* César Sánchez <[email protected]>
* Santiago Romero <[email protected]>
* Pat Beirne <[email protected]> (ARM port)
* Roman Hodek <[email protected]> (m68k port)
* Morten Eriksen <[email protected]> (misc fixes)
* Silvio Cesare <[email protected]> (ELF hacking)
* Timothy Fesig <[email protected]> (S390 port)
* Anton Blanchard <[email protected]> (Powerpc port)
* Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]> (SPARC port, support for libelf, many fixes)
* Jakub Bogusz <[email protected]> (alpha port)
* SuSE (amd64 port)
* Ian Wienand <[email protected]> (IA64 port)
* Eric Vaitl <[email protected]> (mipsel port)
* Petr Machata <[email protected]> (misc fixes)
* Joe Damato <[email protected]> (libdl support, libunwind support)

1. Introduction
---------------

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

2. Where can I find it
----------------------

http://www.ltrace.org

3. How does it work
-------------------

Using software breakpoints, just like gdb.

4. 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...

5. Bugs
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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 [email protected].

This file is very incomplete and out-of-date.

6. License
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    Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Juan Cespedes <[email protected]>

    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.