simple ptrace-based program execution tracer
$ tracer -h
Usage: tracer [program] [args...]
Run PROGRAM on ARGS printing the values of the program counter.
Trace the executed memory addresses in order.
$ tracer ./hello|head
4195344
4195346
4195349
4195350
4195353
4195357
4195358
4195359
4195366
4195373
Disassemble the executable and collect trace data by instruction.
Format used is "address #evaluations disassembly...".
$ tracer-w-disasm ./hello|grep -C 4 " 10"
400504 1 movl $0x0,-0x4(%rbp)
40050b 1 movl $0x0,-0x8(%rbp)
400512 1 movl $0x0,-0x4(%rbp)
400519 1 jmp 0000000000400525
40051b 100 mov -0x4(%rbp),%eax
40051e 100 mov %eax,-0x8(%rbp)
400521 100 addl $0x1,-0x4(%rbp)
400525 101 cmpl $0x63,-0x4(%rbp)
400529 101 jle 000000000040051b
40052b 1 mov $0x4005e4,%edi
400530 1 callq 00000000004003e0
400535 1 leaveq
400536 1 retq