Low-Overhead Interactive Debugging via Dynamic Instrumentation with DISE
HPCA '05 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Pin: building customized program analysis tools with dynamic instrumentation
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Transparent debugging of dynamically instrumented programs
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News - Special issue on the 2005 workshop on binary instrumentation and application
Valgrind: a framework for heavyweight dynamic binary instrumentation
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
PinPlay: a framework for deterministic replay and reproducible analysis of parallel programs
Proceedings of the 8th annual IEEE/ACM international symposium on Code generation and optimization
How to do a million watchpoints: efficient debugging using dynamic instrumentation
CC'08/ETAPS'08 Proceedings of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software 17th international conference on Compiler construction
SPIRE: improving dynamic binary translation through SPC-indexed indirect branch redirecting
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Proceedings of the 40th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Behave or be watched: debugging with behavioral watchpoints
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Dependable Systems
DrDebug: Deterministic Replay based Cyclic Debugging with Dynamic Slicing
Proceedings of Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
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Dynamic binary instrumentation systems have become popular frameworks for building custom program analysis tools. For example, Pin [8], Valgrind [9], and DynamoRIO [5] have been used to build a variety of memory checking, thread checking, cache simulation, and profiling tools. However, there has been little emphasis on building custom debugging tools with these frameworks. We introduce PinADX, a set of debugging extensions to the Pin instrumentation framework that allow easy development of custom debugger features on both Linux and Windows. This paper presents the PinADX API, demonstrates its use in a simple debugger extension, discusses the implementation details in the Pin instrumentation system, and shows that the performance is better than a native debugger for some typical debugging tasks. We believe that dynamic instrumentation technology is a powerful tool for building advanced debugging features and that an easy to use API will greatly facilitate the development of such features.