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+/* sysprof-tracer.c
+ *
+ * Copyright 2022 Christian Hergert <chergert@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+#include "config.h"
+
+#include <glib.h>
+#include <sysprof-capture.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "backtrace-helper.h"
+
+#include "gconstructor.h"
+
+#if defined (G_HAS_CONSTRUCTORS)
+# ifdef G_DEFINE_CONSTRUCTOR_NEEDS_PRAGMA
+#  pragma G_DEFINE_CONSTRUCTOR_PRAGMA_ARGS(collector_init_ctor)
+# endif
+G_DEFINE_CONSTRUCTOR(collector_init_ctor)
+#else
+# error Your platform/compiler is missing constructor support
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __APPLE__
+# define profile_func_enter __cyg_profile_func_enter
+# define profile_func_exit __cyg_profile_func_exit
+#endif
+
+static void
+collector_init_ctor (void)
+{
+  backtrace_init ();
+  sysprof_collector_init ();
+}
+
+/* TODO:
+ *
+ * This is just an example.
+ *
+ * What we would really want to do is to have a new frame type for enter/exit
+ * tracing so that we can only push/pop the new address to the sample. Then
+ * when decoding it can recreate stack traces if necessary.
+ */
+
+void
+profile_func_enter (void *func,
+                    void *call_site)
+{
+  sysprof_collector_sample (backtrace_func, NULL);
+}
+
+void
+profile_func_exit (void *func,
+                   void *call_site)
+{
+}