Re: [DynInst_API:] Deleting snippets

2015-11-18 Thread Barton Miller
Yes, Dyninst was designed to allow safe live insertion and deletion of snippets. --bart On 11/18/2015 9:45 AM, Bill Williams wrote: This should actually be safe. Deleting a snippet will create another copy of the function without the deleted snippet and redirect all springboards there, and

Re: [DynInst_API:] Deleting snippets

2015-11-18 Thread Bill Williams
This should actually be safe. Deleting a snippet will create another copy of the function without the deleted snippet and redirect all springboards there, and the same safety guarantees that hold for insertion in general should hold here. If you want to be a) paranoid, and b) more efficient wit