Software announcements

  • (11/7/2007) New Dyninst Binary Rewriter DynInst home
    • added the ability to analyze and instrument binaries before execution, including shared libraries (.so/.dll) and executables (a.out).
    • initial analysis and instrumentation costs to be incurred once and amortized over many runs of the instrumented code. It also provides binary instrumentation in environments where process control is limited or inefficient.
    • initial (pre-release, internal) version of the rewriter includes support for static executables on IA32, AMD64/EM64T, and PowerPC. This version supports ELF binaries, including Linux, BlueGene and Cray CNL.
    • first public release will support both static and dynamic executables (including shared objects/dll's) on IA32, IA64, Power/PPC, Power/PPC-64, and SPARC on ELF, XCOFF and PE binaries.
  • (11/09/2006) PAPI 3.5 released
    • Support for Intel Core2Duo, completely compatible support for IBM Blue Gene and Cray XT3.
    • In addition, this release solidifies a wide range of issues including a number of bug fixes and enhancements.
    • New in this release is extensive support for 'configure', which is now supported (and required) on all platforms.

    • This release is a recommended upgrade for all platforms.
      For a summary of changes, read the PAPI 3.5.0 Release Notes
      To download the software, visit the PAPI download page.