Documentation for the DynamoRIO Beta Release
Version 0.9.4

(c) Copyright 2002-2005 HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
(c) Copyright 2002-2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Contents

• Core System Overview
• Using DynamoRIO
• Extending DynamoRIO: The DynamoRIO API
• Compatibility with Previous Versions
• Reporting Bugs
• Change Log
• License
• Acknowledgements

What's New in Version 0.9.4

This release's main feature is extending coverage to the latest Linux and Windows platforms. Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 are now supported, and the Linux glibc issues are resolved. Later Linux kernels are also supported, though corner cases with signals are not all handled. The changelog lists the other features and bug fixes.

We have set up a user discussion email list.

The new Windows GUI will display custom client statistics that are exported appropriately. See our custom statistics example.

What's New in Version 0.9.3

We have made a number of changes to our interface that are not backward-compatible with prior releases (0.9.2 and earlier). The changes most likely to affect existing clients are discussed in the compatibility notes.

Below is a list of the new features in this release (these are also listed in the changelog). For more information on each of them see the API documentation.

• Adaptive optimization
• Custom traces
• Custom exit stubs
• Targeting a basic block prefix that restores a register
• Using DynamoRIO as a standalone library
• Adaptive level-of-detail IR
• Support for saving and restoring floating-point, MMX, and SSE state
• Thread-awareness support