+
+/** \ingroup TRACE_category
+ * \brief Get declared categories
+ *
+ * This function should be used to get categories that were already
+ * declared with #TRACE_category or with #TRACE_category_with_color.
+ *
+ * See \ref tracing_tracing for details on how to trace
+ * the (categorized) resource utilization.
+ *
+ * \return A dynar with the declared categories, must be freed with xbt_dynar_free.
+ *
+ * \see MSG_task_set_category, SD_task_set_category
+ */
+xbt_dynar_t TRACE_get_categories (void)
+{
+ if (!TRACE_is_enabled()) return NULL;
+ if (!TRACE_categorized()) return NULL;
+
+ xbt_dynar_t ret = xbt_dynar_new (sizeof(char*), &xbt_free_ref);
+ xbt_dict_cursor_t cursor = NULL;
+ char *name, *value;
+ xbt_dict_foreach(created_categories, cursor, name, value) {
+ xbt_dynar_push_as (ret, char*, xbt_strdup(name));
+ }
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/** \ingroup TRACE_mark
+ * \brief Declare a new type for tracing mark.
+ *
+ * This function declares a new Paje event
+ * type in the trace file that can be used by
+ * simulators to declare application-level
+ * marks. This function is independent of
+ * which API is used in SimGrid.
+ *
+ * \param mark_type The name of the new type.
+ *
+ * \see TRACE_mark
+ */