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Overview</a></span></dt> 27 <dt><span class="sect1"><a href="lk-manual.html#lk-manual.options">13.2. Lackey Command-line Options</a></span></dt> 28 </dl> 29 </div> 30 <p>To use this tool, you must specify 31 <code class="option">--tool=lackey</code> on the Valgrind 32 command line.</p> 33 <div class="sect1"> 34 <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> 35 <a name="lk-manual.overview"></a>13.1.Overview</h2></div></div></div> 36 <p>Lackey is a simple Valgrind tool that does various kinds of basic 37 program measurement. It adds quite a lot of simple instrumentation to the 38 program's code. It is primarily intended to be of use as an example tool, 39 and consequently emphasises clarity of implementation over 40 performance.</p> 41 </div> 42 <div class="sect1"> 43 <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> 44 <a name="lk-manual.options"></a>13.2.Lackey Command-line Options</h2></div></div></div> 45 <p>Lackey-specific command-line options are:</p> 46 <div class="variablelist"> 47 <a name="lk.opts.list"></a><dl class="variablelist"> 48 <dt> 49 <a name="opt.basic-counts"></a><span class="term"> 50 <code class="option">--basic-counts=<no|yes> [default: yes] </code> 51 </span> 52 </dt> 53 <dd> 54 <p>When enabled, Lackey prints the following statistics and 55 information about the execution of the client program:</p> 56 <div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"> 57 <li class="listitem"><p>The number of calls to the function specified by the 58 <code class="option">--fnname</code> option (the default is 59 <code class="computeroutput">main</code>). 60 If the program has had its symbols stripped, the count will always 61 be zero.</p></li> 62 <li class="listitem"><p>The number of conditional branches encountered and the 63 number and proportion of those taken.</p></li> 64 <li class="listitem"><p>The number of superblocks entered and completed by the 65 program. Note that due to optimisations done by the JIT, this 66 is not at all an accurate value.</p></li> 67 <li class="listitem"><p>The number of guest (x86, amd64, ppc, etc.) instructions and IR 68 statements executed. IR is Valgrind's RISC-like intermediate 69 representation via which all instrumentation is done. 70 </p></li> 71 <li class="listitem"><p>Ratios between some of these counts.</p></li> 72 <li class="listitem"><p>The exit code of the client program.</p></li> 73 </ol></div> 74 </dd> 75 <dt> 76 <a name="opt.detailed-counts"></a><span class="term"> 77 <code class="option">--detailed-counts=<no|yes> [default: no] </code> 78 </span> 79 </dt> 80 <dd><p>When enabled, Lackey prints a table containing counts of loads, 81 stores and ALU operations, differentiated by their IR types. 82 The IR types are identified by their IR name ("I1", "I8", ... "I128", 83 "F32", "F64", and "V128").</p></dd> 84 <dt> 85 <a name="opt.trace-mem"></a><span class="term"> 86 <code class="option">--trace-mem=<no|yes> [default: no] </code> 87 </span> 88 </dt> 89 <dd><p>When enabled, Lackey prints the size and address of almost every 90 memory access made by the program. See the comments at the top of 91 the file <code class="computeroutput">lackey/lk_main.c</code> for details 92 about the output format, how it works, and inaccuracies in the address 93 trace. Note that this option produces immense amounts of output.</p></dd> 94 <dt> 95 <a name="opt.trace-superblocks"></a><span class="term"> 96 <code class="option">--trace-superblocks=<no|yes> [default: no] </code> 97 </span> 98 </dt> 99 <dd><p>When enabled, 100 Lackey prints out the address of every superblock 101 (a single entry, multiple exit, linear chunk of code) executed by the 102 program. This is primarily of interest to Valgrind developers. See 103 the comments at the top of the file 104 <code class="computeroutput">lackey/lk_main.c</code> for details about 105 the output format. Note that this option produces large amounts of 106 output.</p></dd> 107 <dt> 108 <a name="opt.fnname"></a><span class="term"> 109 <code class="option">--fnname=<name> [default: main] </code> 110 </span> 111 </dt> 112 <dd><p>Changes the function for which calls are counted when 113 <code class="option">--basic-counts=yes</code> is specified.</p></dd> 114 </dl> 115 </div> 116 </div> 117 </div> 118 <div> 119 <br><table class="nav" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="2" border="0" summary="Navigation footer"> 120 <tr> 121 <td rowspan="2" width="40%" align="left"> 122 <a accesskey="p" href="bbv-manual.html"><<12.BBV: an experimental basic block vector generation tool</a></td> 123 <td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="manual.html">Up</a></td> 124 <td rowspan="2" width="40%" align="right"><a accesskey="n" href="nl-manual.html">14.Nulgrind: the minimal Valgrind tool>></a> 125 </td> 126 </tr> 127 <tr><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td></tr> 128 </table> 129 </div> 130 </body> 131 </html> 132
