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Re: Possible to get name of current procedure from within procedure? [message #70818]

Tue, 11 May 2010 11:40

robparker23
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On 11 May, 14:53, pp <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 11, 10:42 am, Rob <robparke...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this question even makes sense but what I was
>> wondering is does IDL have any sort of function or variable that can
>> output the name of the procedure/function that is currently being
>> executed?
>
> scope_traceback() gives you the entire call stack.

Thanks. I found an old reference on here to help, calls=stacks which
(although deprecated) does what I want to do.

>> Ultimately this would be something we'd add to all of our modular
>> procedures in order to monitor performance and see how fast each
>> module was running.
>
> This sounds a lot like what the profiler does.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I'd never heard of the profiler
tool before. I've just read up on it on David's site and will
certainly give it a test out. Thanks :-)

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