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| genre = [[Instrumentation (computer programming)|Instrumentation framework]], [[Profiling (computer programming)|Profiler]]

| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]], free, but you cannot redistribute Pin or pintool binaries

| website = [{{URL|http://www.intel.com/software/pintool www.intel.com/software/pintool]}}

}}

'''Pin''' is a platform for creating analysis tools. A pin tool comprises instrumentation, analysis and callback [[Subroutine|routines]]. Instrumentation routines are called when code that has not yet been recompiled is about to be run, and enable the insertion of analysis routines. Analysis routines are called when the code associated with them is run. Callback routines are only called when specific conditions are met, or when a certain event has occurred. Pin provides an extensive [[application programming interface]] (API) for instrumentation at different abstraction levels, from one instruction to an entire binary module. It also supports callbacks for many events such as library loads, system calls, signals/exceptions and thread creation events.