Emilio G. Cota <c...@braap.org> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 16:48:53 +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: >> Our performance isn't so critical that we can't spare a simple flag >> check when we exec a TB considering everything else we check in the >> outer loop. > > [I know this is just done to illustrate how function names > in plugins can bind to tracing calls, but someone might > get confused by expecting more from "exec_tb" than it > actually does.] > > This flag check costs nothing because "exec_tb" is > almost never called. The way it works right now, we > need -d nochain for "exec_tb" to actually generate > an event every time a TB executes. I'll reword the commit a bit. > IMO an eventual plugin API should let plugins decide whether > to subscribe to the execution of a particular TB, when > said TB is being translated, instead of providing > an all-or-nothing switch. Well we will want pre/post instruction translation hooks which would be the obvious place to add this. Using -d nochain is a useful enough hack for now. > > Thanks, > > E. -- Alex Bennée
