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CSI: Crash Scene Investigation

An instrumenting compiler for lightweight program tracing. The mechanisms were originally proposed in

P. Ohmann and B. Liblit. “Lightweight control-flow instrumentation and postmortem analysis in support of debugging.” Automated Software Engineering Journal, 2016. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s10515-016-0190-1

Preprint: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~liblit/ase-journal-2016/ase-journal-2016.pdf

Current Release

csi-cc v1.4.0

Documentation

Documentation is included in the source download, or you can view the online documentation.

Changelog

Release associated with the 2023 INFORMS JOC paper "A Set Covering Approach to Customized Coverage Instrumentation." Major changes include:

  • Support for more LLVM releases (through 7.0)
  • A new, more efficient optimal coverage solver ("LEMON"), as proposed in the paper
  • Support for the GNU Indirect Function attribute for run-time selection among tracing schemes, as referenced in Peter Ohmann's PhD dissertation

Release associated with the PLDI 2017 paper "Control-Flow Recovery from Partial Failure Reports." Major changes include:

  • Support for more recent LLVM releases (through 4.0)
  • Support for OSX 10.11+
  • Tools for extracting annotated control-flow graphs for downstream analyses

Release associated with the ASE 2016 paper "Optimizing Customized Program Coverage." Major changes include:

  • Support for various levels of optimization for statement and call-site coverage instrumentation (see the online documentation)

Release associated with the article from the Automated Software Engineering journal (2016). Major changes include:

  • Support for function, call-site, and statement coverage instrumentation
  • Support for more customizable tracing (see the online documentation)

Initial release.