Editing DTrace (section)

== Language and application providers ==
With a supported ''language provider'', DTrace can retrieve context of the code, including function, source file, and line number location. Further, dynamic memory allocation and garbage collection can be made available if supported by the language.<ref name="DTraceBook">{{cite book |title=DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD |year=2011 |publisher=[[Prentice Hall]] |isbn=9780132091510 |pages=1152}}</ref> Supported language providers include [[assembly language]]{{clarify|reason=Which ones?|date=February 2018}}, [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Erlang (programming language)|Erlang]], [[JavaScript]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], [[shell script]], and [[Tcl]].

''Application providers'' allow DTrace to follow the operation of applications through system calls and into the kernel. Applications that offer DTrace application providers include [[MySQL]], [[PostgreSQL]], [[Oracle Database]], [[Oracle Grid Engine]], and [[Firefox]].<ref name="DTraceBook"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/documentation.html |title=Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine Documentation |publisher=Open Grid Scheduler |access-date=December 30, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DTrace |title=DTrace – MDN |publisher=Mozilla |access-date=December 30, 2012 |archive-date=September 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905175313/https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DTrace |url-status=dead }}</ref>