Erick,
If your instrumentation is not performance critical, you might be interested in
using the llint C++ backend. To use that:
1. in WTF/wtf/Platform.h (or equivalent), #define ENABLE_JIT 0, and #define
ENABLE_LLINT 1. This will allow you to build for the C++ llint which generates
C++ code.
2. Look at Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.cpp. In there,
you'll fine macros that implements interpreter labels including one for each
bytecode opcode. You can modify that for your experiments.
3. Look in Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/instructions.rb for the cloopDo
instruction. You can add this instruction to the llint asm code to insert
instrumentation to your liking. e.g.
cloopDo // printf("I just added a printf\n");
This embeds the code after the // in the generated llint interpreter (see
the generated LLIntAssembly.h).
Hope that helps. And yes, the old interpreter is no longer available.
Regards,
Mark
On Nov 12, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Erick Lavoie <erick.lav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A research team instrumented JavaScriptCore in 2010 to gather empirical data
> about the dynamic behavior of JavaScript [1]. I am currently wondering how
> easy it would be to replicate their setup using the latest WebKit release.
>
> I noticed, in the latest release, that either the JIT or the Low-level
> Interpreter must be enabled for the build to succeed. Does that mean that the
> previous interpreter is not available anymore? If it is still available, is
> there a way to use only the old interpreter, without the JIT or the LLInt?
>
> Also, I would like an opinion from one of the dev guy on how easy it would be
> to add instrumentation code for every bytecode in the new Low-level
> Interpreter, given that some part of it are now written in an assembler
> dialect.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erick
>
> [1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806598
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