[PATCH][DOC][OBVIOUS] Document default value for use-after-scope-direct-emission-threshold

Martin Liška mliska@suse.cz
Fri Feb 3 11:31:00 GMT 2017


On 02/03/2017 10:45 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Martin Liška wrote:
>> Installed as obvious as r245147.
> 
> Yes, but...

Hi.

Thanks for that, stupid typos.

> 
> I think you wanted to say "is 256", not "in 256" and make this a
> full sentence?  Looking at the entire entry I noticed a few other
> issues ("smaller of equal" instead of "smaller or equal", missing
> articles, passive voice,...) which I believe the patch below addresses.
> 
> (I'm still not quite sure what this option does, and whether we 
> could say "poison and unpoison it", for example?  Can you advise?)

I'm sending enhancement of that. Basically: direct poisoning = emitting
instructions that touch shadow memory vs. runtime callbacks = function
that does that :)

I welcome help with that.

Martin

> 
> Gerald
> 
> 2017-02-03  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>
> 
> 	* doc/invoke.texi (use-after-scope-direct-emission-threshold):
> 	Fix typos and grammar; use active voice.	
> 
> Index: doc/invoke.texi
> ===================================================================
> --- doc/invoke.texi	(revision 245148)
> +++ doc/invoke.texi	(working copy)
> @@ -10469,9 +10469,9 @@
>  @option{--param asan-instrumentation-with-call-threshold=0}.
>  
>  @item use-after-scope-direct-emission-threshold
> -If size of a local variables in bytes is smaller of equal to this number,
> -direct instruction emission is utilized to poison and unpoison local variables.
> -Default value in 256.
> +If the size of a local variable in bytes is smaller or equal to this number,
> +utilize direct instruction emission to poison and unpoison local variables.
> +The default value is 256.
>  
>  @item chkp-max-ctor-size
>  Static constructors generated by Pointer Bounds Checker may become very
> 

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