InterAspect
InterAspect: aspect-oriented instrumentation with GCC. We present the InterAspect instrumentation framework for GCC, a widely used compiler infrastructure. The addition of plug-in support in the latest release of GCC makes it an attractive platform for runtime instrumentation, as GCC plug-ins can directly add instrumentation by transforming the compiler’s intermediate representation. Such transformations, however, require expert knowledge of GCC internals. InterAspect addresses this situation by allowing instrumentation plug-ins to be developed using the familiar vocabulary of Aspect-Oriented Programming: pointcuts, join points, and advice functions. Moreover, InterAspect uses specific information about each join point in a pointcut, possibly including results of static analysis, to support powerful customized instrumentation. We describe the InterAspect API and present several examples that illustrate its practical utility as a runtime-verification platform. We also introduce a tracecut system that uses InterAspect to construct program monitors that are formally specified as regular expressions.
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- Seyster, Justin; Dixit, Ketan; Huang, Xiaowan; Grosu, Radu; Havelund, Klaus; Smolka, Scott A.; Stoller, Scott D.; Zadok, Erez: \textscInterAspect: aspect-oriented instrumentation with GCC (2012)
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