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Re: Possible to get name of current procedure from within procedure? [message #70822 is a reply to message #70818]

Tue, 11 May 2010 06:53

penteado
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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.

>
> What I'd like to do is write a generic bit of code that spawns the
> system time and outputs this to a file, ALONG with the name of the
> procedure where the spawn command was executed.

systime() is probably better than spawning a process just to get the
time.

>
> 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.

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