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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
	Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>,
	       Doug Evans <dje@google.com>,
	       "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	       Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [NEWS/RFA] Re: [gdbserver] x86 agent expression bytecode compiler 	(speed up conditional tracepoints)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3mxuplfnz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTingxuFmFKfKBd6R-B9Cx3ChEPOIUczYjTMapo39@mail.gmail.com>	(Hui Zhu's message of "Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:12:41 +0800")

>>>>> ">" == Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> writes:

>> In dbct, I get the binary code like what you do in this patch.
>> define a functon, get binary code from this function, and use it for
>> other thing.

>> Because Gcc's optimization will compile the function that support the
>> code to some asm code that we don't want it to be.

In this case I think the code is only using GCC as a sort of glorified
assembler.  From what I can see it is not taking the qemu approach of
having GCC compile C, then memcpying around the resulting object code.
Instead it is just using inline assembler, like:

  EMIT_ASM32 (i386_prologue,
	    "push %ebp\n\t"
	    "mov %esp,%ebp");

This seems more reliable than the write-it-in-C approach.

Tom


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-20 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-07 16:00 Pedro Alves
2010-06-07 16:04 ` Michael Snyder
2010-06-07 16:35   ` Joel Brobecker
2010-06-10 17:28 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-10 17:36   ` Pedro Alves
2010-06-10 18:43     ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-14 11:15       ` [NEWS/RFA] " Pedro Alves
2010-06-14 17:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-14 22:19           ` Pedro Alves
2010-06-16 18:57             ` Doug Evans
2010-06-16 19:13               ` Stan Shebs
2010-06-16 19:16                 ` Pedro Alves
2010-06-16 19:21                   ` Doug Evans
2010-06-16 23:58                     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-06-20 22:27                       ` Pedro Alves
2010-06-16 19:31                   ` Stan Shebs
2010-06-17 18:03                     ` Michael Snyder
2010-06-19 16:13                       ` Hui Zhu
2010-06-19 16:16                         ` Doug Evans
2010-06-19 17:13                           ` Hui Zhu
2010-06-19 17:26                             ` Doug Evans
2010-06-20  9:30                               ` [RFA-new version][gdbserver] " Pierre Muller
     [not found]                               ` <-3945058798826177264@unknownmsgid>
2010-06-20 15:30                                 ` Doug Evans
2010-06-20 17:02                                   ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]                                   ` <-1673004315710326113@unknownmsgid>
2010-06-20 17:11                                     ` Doug Evans
2010-06-20 18:41                                   ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-20 20:36                                     ` Pierre Muller
2010-06-20 21:07                                       ` Pierre Muller
2010-06-21  1:47                                         ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-21  6:31                                           ` Pierre Muller
2010-06-20 18:31                         ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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