[Valgrind-users] instruction trace

[David B. <dbr...@st...>]

Hi!
Is it possible to use valgrind to get a total number of x86 assembly
instructions issued?  Specifically, I'm trying to see how many assembly
instructions are issued for a given input into a crypto library.  I've
looked and used profiling tools such as vtune and got total number of
instructions retired, but that's not quite what I'm interested in.  I
want the total number of assembly instructions given to the processor...

If not valgrind, does anyone have any suggestions?  I can't find any
good execution tracing tools for x86 and linux....

thanks for any help!
david