On strategies for function call instrumentation

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Derrick Coetzee wrote:
> 
>> 1. We have a C/C++ source-to-source translation framework. We could
>> translate each function call "f(a,b,c)" to something like "({ _asm {
>> ... }; typeof(f(a,b,c)) result = f(a,b,c); _asm { ... }; result; })"
>> 2. We could modify the code generation of gcc in a private fork.


With the next GCC, it can be done inside a plugin. I tend to believe this could be a good use case for a plugin, and the 
plugin infrastructure is probably mature for that. You probably could do that in GIMPLE/SSA without adding a new port.

Regards.



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