Re: [Valgrind-developers] Merging stage2.c and vg_main.c [was Re: tool-specific CLOs] (fwd)

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> One other nice thing to do would be to drop all of stage2's use of
> malloc and fprintf(), and use the Valgrind equivalents (esp printf,
> since we want to report errors in a consistent way).  Certainly mixing
> the use of VG_(arena_malloc)/malloc in vg_main just looks very strange.

Avoiding malloc() is tricky.  We can't use VG_(malloc)() (or
VG_(arena_malloc)()) until the tool is loaded, and the redzone size is
set.  But quite a lot of things have to happen before then (eg. selecting
the tool with --tool, loading the tool, etc.)

fprintf() can probably be avoided more.

N