Re: RFA: general prologue analysis framework

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-08T16:00:14Z

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:01:17AM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> I'm not sure this has any practical value, but it's fun to think
> about. I wonder if there are cool things we could do if we had such
> detailed information about the machine code we were looking at. Could
> we step through heavily reordered code better?

I can't see how it would be useful for that; but I've written before
about the sorts of things we could do with detailed knowledge of what
machine code does. For instance, you can single-step over breakpoints
much more efficiently in some caess.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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