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

[Jeremy F. <je...@go...>]

On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 04:40, Julian Seward wrote:
> > 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.

Eh?  I don't understand.  Doesn't every BB have a distinct entry point
anyway?

        J