Re: Making a variable addressable in GIMPLE

[Yoav Etsion <etsman at gmail dot com>]

The pointer variable's address is used as the pointer's unique ID in a 
database, collecting information about each pointer variable - mostly 
its legal bounds. That way I can test when a pointer crosses its 
object's bounds.
Terrible overhead, I know. Just need it to collect statistics about 
program (or programmer) behavior.

Yoav

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Yoav Etsion <etsman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > The transformation is simple: mudflap already injects a call to
> > __mf_register when an addressable variable is declared. I want to do
> > the same for all pointer variables [...]
>
>
> Why?  If those pointers are not themselves taken address of, what kind
> access to the pointer value is worth checking?
>
>
> - FChE