Where Innovation Is TraditionIntroduction to the Pin
Instrumentation ToolQuan Jia
Mar 27, 2013ISA 673
Operating Systems’ Security1Where Innovation Is TraditionWhat is Pin?2Pin is Intel’s dynamic binary instrumentation
engine.Where Innovation Is TraditionWhat is Instrumentation?• A technique that inserts extra code into a program to
collect runtime information.• Program analysis : performance profiling, error detection,
capture & replay• Architectural study : processor and cache simulati
