If you think it's stable enough for basic day-to-day use, please do.

Alex

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:41 AM, WAROQUIERS Philippe
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am working on a patch that makes a valgrind process "fully debuggable"
> (so, you can put breaks, look variables or registers, continue, next,
>  step, query leaks interactively, etc ...).
>
> So, to obtain the below, you could just start your executable
> under the "patched" valgrind, put breaks at the places
> where you want to look at valgrind simulated registers,
> and then either manually (or as part of "break command") do:
>   info reg
>   continue
>
> The patch is attached to bugzilla 214909.
> It is however something like 2 months old now. I am currently working
> on it (some cleanup, use GPLv2+ code rather than GPL3, fixing some bugs,
> ...).
>
> If you are interested, I can provide the last version.
>
> (NB: patch is currently only done for linux + x86 or amd64).
>
> Philippe
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Alex Slover [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: Thursday 29 July 2010 16:35
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [Valgrind-users] Accessing contents of registers
>>
>>I'm looking to create a self-contained function or macro that will
>>allow me to read the values of some or all of valgrind's simulated
>>registers at any point during the program's execution. It doesn't
>>really matter how- putting them in a data structure, just dumping them
>>haphazardly onto the stack, or even outputting them to stdout or the
>>log file are all acceptable to varying degrees.  It's clear that
>>(assuming it's even possible), I need to use libvex to accomplish
>>this, but even after spending some time reading the libvex source I'm
>>still pretty fuzzy about it all; the source is fine for details but
>>I'm a little lost w/o the "big picture", I'm still not totally clear
>>what libvex even is and what it's for. Would someone mind helping out
>>a newb with a few questions? Namely,
>>
>>- Does "big picture" documentation for libvex even exist, or is the
>>source about all I'm going to get?
>>- Is what I'm thinking about even possible, or is libvex only allowed
>>when developing valgrind tools?
>>- Can I just call LibVEX_GuestAMD64_initialize() at any point during
>>execution (the platform is always amd64-linux), then get the register
>>values from the now-initialized VexGuestAMD64State object, or do I
>>need to run some IR code?
>>- If I do need IR code, how does that work?
>>
>> I appreciate it.
>>
>>Alex
>>
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