List of all function calls made in an application

Question

How can we list all the functions being called in an application. I tried using GDB but its backtrace list only upto the main function call.

I need deeper list i.e

Answer 1

record function-call-history

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Process-Record-and-Replay.html

This should be a great hardware accelerated possibility if you are one of the few people (2015) with a CPU that supports Intel Processor Tracing (Intel PT, intel_pt in /proc/cpuinfo).

GDB docs claim that it can produce output like:

(gdb) list 1, 10
1   void foo (void)
2   {
3   }
4
5   void bar (void)
6   {
7     ...
8     foo ();
9     ...
10  }
(gdb) record function-call-history /ilc
1  bar     inst 1,4     at foo.c:6,8
2    foo   inst 5,10    at foo.c:2,3
3  bar     inst 11,13   at foo.c:9,10

Before using it you need to run:

start
record btrace

which is where a non capable CPU fails with:

 Target does not support branch tracing.

CPU support is further discussed at: How to run record instruction-history and function-call-history in GDB?

Related threads:

• how to trace function call in C?
• Is there a compiler feature to inject custom function entry and exit code?

For embedded, you also consider JTAG and supporting hardware like ARM's DSTREAM, but x86 support does not seem very good: debugging x86 kernel using a hardware debugger