Will Oprofile help you on that?

BR,
Jason 

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> [mailto:linaro-dev-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Michael Hope
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 10:47 PM
> To: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
> Subject: Capturing usage information
> 
> I'd like to record the running of a typical program such as 
> Firefox, GCC, or ffmpeg and capture the calls and arguments 
> to functions like
> strcpy() and memcpy().  The idea is to generate a usage 
> profile so we can tell what standard library functions and 
> what variants (i.e.
> aligned/unaligned, small copy/large copy) to attack first.
> 
> Does anyone know of existing research with this information, 
> or existing tools that could capture it?
> 
> My fallback is to use a LD_PRELOAD trick to replace the 
> interesting functions with tracing versions.
> 
> -- Michael
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