API Reference

• CONTROL Program control and initialization
• IMG Image: an image (executable or library)
• SEC Section: a section within an Image
• RTN Routine: a routine/function/procedure within a section
• BBL Basic block: a single entrace, single exit sequence of instructions
• INS Instruction: an instruction (syllable) within a routine
• TRACE Trace: a single entrance, multiple exit sequence of instructions
• SYM Symbol: n symbol (regular or dynamic) within an image
• REG Register
• ARG Arguments to instrumentation routines
• PROTO Prototype: a description of an application routine
• THREAD Thread support
• PROCESS Process support
• DBG Access debug information from a Pintool
• CODECACHE Inspect or alter code cache behavior
• SP SuperPin tool api for parallel exec
• CHILD_PROCESS Follow child process API
• CONTEXT Context: architectural state of the processor
• CHECKPOINTING Save processor state and restart program at a given point
• UTILS Architecture-specific utilities
• MISC Miscellaneous functions

This section contains utilities that are not directly related to instrumentation, but are useful for writing tools.

• LOCKS Utitilites for locking
• KNOB Command line switches
• PRINT STRING Utitilites for formatting strings
• PARSE STRING Utitilites for tokenizing strings

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