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

[Doug R. <df...@nl...>]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:34, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:28, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > Well if you are planning to drop this feature, it should tighten up the
> > code generation for the low-overhead tools since you won't need the
> > dec/test/branch at the beginning of each block, I guess.
> 
> No, that code is there for thread context switching - the scheduler
> switches to a new thread after N basic blocks (50000, I think).  It's
> use in --stop-after is secondary.

I hadn't thought of that. Oh well - it seemed like a good idea at the
time :-)