From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tracing the caller of a function Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:02:51 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87y6lr6guc.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259343709 12171 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2009 17:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:41:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 18:41:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NE4pC-0001mw-Mo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:41:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NE4pC-0005mu-BN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:41:42 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Trace: individual.net NvSdp0wcd7DrVYSZ+1dp5Q/RRgjqFcDcXcuvdL1Dg1bUOvXyOM Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZmYyMWE4ODlkNWU0NWE3N2M0Y2E4YTVkM2VmNTVjODVkMzcyYWVhYw== sha1:Fr5/atJhRUQMyGsywFhg8XObppk= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175119 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70192 Archived-At: Nordlöw writes: > How can I trace the reason for a function being called many times when > I have no clue where? In other words how do I trace the caller of a > function in Emacs? Put a breakpoint on that function and watch the backtrace. M-x debug-on-entry RET that-function RET (do-something) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__