2017-05-08 20:39 GMT+02:00 Siddharth Nilakantan <sid....@gmail.com>: > Hi Mike and Ivo, > > I noticed a thread where you guys had a discussion going. > > https://sourceforge.net/p/valgrind/mailman/message/35687503/ > > I was playing around with writing a tool that does some online analysis of > register reads/writes. Basically, the tool needs to know every register > read/write performed by the user program.
Hi Sid, What is the ultimate goal of your analysis tool? > Due to minor ambiguity in the documentation (both in the code and the PLDI > paper), I discovered the hard > way that VG_(track_post_reg_write) and VG_(track_pre_reg_read) are functions > that are called only around syscalls. I'm guessing that any VG_(track_pre_*) > and VG_(track_post_*) functions occur only around syscalls. Yes, indeed. Every tool also works with the IR (intermediate representation) - this where you can catch (and instrument) register reads and writes. I. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
