Re: [Valgrind-developers] Re: basic block chaining

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

> So you mean have a structure per basic block, which contains as one of
> its elements the entrypoint for its generated code, or if there is no
> generated code, the entrypoint of "patch_me"?  This is OK, but it would
> be nice not to have an indirect jump in the generated code, since this
> makes branch prediction much harder.  A nice absolute unconditional jump
> makes things easiest on the CPU.

Um, yes, that (the ld.so scheme) requires a seperate entry point per 
jump-target, which is a complication we don't want.  I think I declare
a red herring on this one.

J