tracef(3)

tracef3

Lttng-ust printf(3)-like interface

Usage

#include <lttng/tracef.h>
#define tracef(fmt, ...)

Link with -llttng-ust -llttng-ust-common.

Overview

The tracef() macro is part of version 0 of the LTTng-UST API (see the “Compatibility with previous APIs” section of lttng-ust(3)).

Prefer using lttng_ust_tracef(3) which is part of version 1 of the API and has the lttng_ust_ namespace.

Resources

• LTTng project website <http://lttng.org>

• LTTng documentation <http://lttng.org/docs>

• Git repositories <http://git.lttng.org>

• GitHub organization <http://github.com/lttng>

• Continuous integration <http://ci.lttng.org/>

• Mailing list <http://lists.lttng.org> for support and development: [email protected]

• IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net

Copyrights

This macro is part of the LTTng-UST project.

This macro is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html>. See the COPYING <https://github.com/lttng/lttng-ust/blob/v2.16/COPYING> file for more details.

Thanks

Thanks to Ericsson for funding this work, providing real-life use cases, and testing.

Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory <http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/> at École Polytechnique de Montréal for the LTTng journey.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Bugs

If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it on the LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng-ust>.

Authors

LTTng-UST was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, with additional contributions from various other people. It is currently maintained by Mathieu Desnoyers <mailto:[email protected]>.

From lttng-ust 2.16.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.