Re: [Valgrind-users] instruction trace

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On 1 May 2003, David Brumley wrote:

> >"Instructions issued" is almost meaningless for the hardware; certainly
> > no software could ever compute it.
>
> Thanks, that's good information but I'm not sure it completely answers
> my question.  What I want is the number of assembly instructions issued,

Um...

I think the hardware counters are the only way you're going to get
instructions issued (at least, in the sense that I understand the term).

Again, I think Rabbit can do the job if you have a Pentium II or III or
Athlon (not sure about P4s), and you don't need to recompile your program.
If you have a P4, I imagine Abyss/Brink could be used without recompiling
your program by creating a simple wrapper program like Rabbit's rabbit.c,
but I'm not certain.

N