User Commands                                         whocalls(1)

NAME
     whocalls - report on the calls to a specific procedure.

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/ccs/bin/whocalls  whocalls   [  -l wholib  ]   funcname
     executable  [  executable  arguements ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
     whocalls is a simple example  of  a  utility  based  on  the
     Link-Auditing library, which permits the tracking of a given
     function call. See Linker and Libraries Guide The executable
     is  run  as  normal.  Each  time  the  procedure funcname is
     called, both the arguments to that  procedure  and  a  stack
     trace are displayed on standard output.

OPTIONS
     -l wholib
           Specify an alternate  who.so Link-Auditing library  to
           use.

EXAMPLES
     Example 1: A sample of the whocalls command.

     This examples tracks the calls to printf() made by a  simple
     hello_world program

     % whocalls printf hello
     printf(0x106e4, 0xef625310, 0xef621ba8)
             hello:main+0x10
             hello:_start+0x5c
     hello
     %

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWtoo                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

SEE ALSO
     ld.so.1(1), sotruss(1), attributes(5)

     Linker and Libraries Guide

SunOS 5.8           Last change: 24 Jan 1997                    1