Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7

[John Reiser]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> Determining stack
> boundaries has always been a bit fraught.  Typically a stack switch has
> been determined heuristically by looking for a "large" change in stack
> pointer, but there's a callback to specifically mark a range of memory
> as a stack, so that movements into and out of a stack can be determined
> as a switch (added specifically to deal with small densely packed stacks
> in uml).

The valgrind+uml patches added a callback, "I am switching stacks >NOW<."
If possible then it is better to tell an interpreter what is happening,
rather than requiring that the interpreter [try to] figure it out.

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John Reiser, jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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