From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tracing what is loading Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:09:58 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87r64jeg55.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <873ah0ombf.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228691498 1067 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2008 23:11:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:11:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 00:12:41 2008 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 1L9Snn-0003CS-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:12:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9Smb-0002TZ-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9SlW-0001TF-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9SlV-0001RB-Ru for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54063 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9SlV-0001Qq-Dr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59905 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9SlU-0004jT-Of for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L9SlL-0006G7-Bv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:10:07 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:10:07 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:10:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VmHeahcT4eGmRBNDVNj4v+skOE4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:60435 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 00:34, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> ;;[Tip from Kai G] make loaded files give a message >> (defadvice load (before debug-log activate) >> (message "Now loading: %s" (locate-library (ad-get-arg 0)))) >> >> That will tell exactly what is loading and in what order. > > That will skip calls to Fload from C code (defadvice does not work for > calls from C). > >> Maybe there is a better or hopefully simpler way like possibly >> compiling something directly into the binary when it is compiled. > > Not necessarily simpler. If you want to do that on a permanent basis, > you can add code to Fload to show a message. If it is just once for > some debugging, you can use the trace facilities of GDB. google on `emacs Fload' turns of a big mess of nothing A search on gmane in emacs.help group on `fload' turns up one hit and its just a gush of output from some kind of compile command. find /usr/share/emacs -iname '*fload*' I've been using emacs for 10 yrs now (Probably should not admit that..) and I've never heard of `Fload'. So ok, I'll bite.. what is `Fload'?