[tree-ssa mudflap] source file/line locations
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche@redhat.com
Sat Aug 31 18:53:00 GMT 2002
Hi -
rth wrote:
> > What's the alternative? At this point, a single location string
> > is given to each __mf_check call.
>
> There are lots of solutions, depending on how elaborate
> you want to get.
I was responding to the "having to pass more arguments to the runtime"
part of what you wrote. I was pointing out that the single additional
string is pretty minimal already, and we were definitely not
contemplating adding more for this purpose.
> Do you store this location, or only
> use it immedately if the check fails?
The latter, at this point.
> I think the most clever solution would be to use the debug
> information present in the executable image, using the return
> address of the __mf_check call as the location key. [...]
Right, and using `addr2line` to map to a source file/line.
One obvious problem is that this relies on the presence and
accuracy/usability of debugging info. FWIW, we already toy
with the glibc backtrace functions.
- FChE
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