Branch trace

Pin tool to collect information about branch instructions during a program's execution.

Build

• Download Intel's Pin framework (tested with version 3.21)
• Extract to a directory of your choice
• From this directory (branch_traces, not the Pin framework)
  • export PIN_ROOT=path/to/your/pin/framework
  • make

Use

$PIN_ROOT/pin -t obj-intel64/branch_traces.so -o branches.out -- <your program here>

The specified output file will be a CSV file with one line per branch executed. Each line contains the branch's program counter, the target branch address, and whether the branch was taken or not.

pc, target, taken
0x7f25b1748e41, 0x7f25b1748eb6, 0
0x7f25b1748e72, 0x7f25b1748e9f, 1
0x7f25b1748ea3, 0x7f25b1748e78, 0
0x7f25b1748eb4, 0x7f25b1748e9f, 1
0x7f25b1748ea3, 0x7f25b1748e78, 0
0x7f25b1748eb4, 0x7f25b1748e9f, 1
0x7f25b1748ea3, 0x7f25b1748e78, 1
0x7f25b1748e82, 0x7f25b1749070, 1