Call diagram generation
BCS
none at anon.com
Tue Jan 5 12:25:20 PST 2010
Hello Strt,
> Lutger Wrote:
>
>> On 01/03/2010 04:31 AM, Strt wrote:
>>
>>> How can I generate some sort of call diagram from my D code?
>>>
>> you can compile with (dmd) -profile and run the executable. This
>> produces a file called trace.log which contains timings for each
>> function and a call graph. It doesn't produce a diagram and has
>> mangled symbols though.
>>
>> You can demangle with std.demangle, read the trace.log with descent
>> or use this utility:
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/wiki/PtraceUtility
>>
>> I haven't updated ptrace in quite a while, so I'm not sure if it
>> still works.
>>
> I just noticed it is called a call graph, being directed and all.
>
> I really just needed the visual thing and seeing that I need to get
> tango to work to use ptrace (and then maybe it won't work) I really
> should just take pencil and paper, I think. Also, it is only a
> sub-section (30 functions or so) I'm interested in.
>
> Thanks anyway!
>
With a little persitance, I'd bet that you could make a awk/grep/sed system
that would convert that output to a graphviz file. With a little fun using
pragma(msg,...) and .mangleof you could even get demangled symbols.
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