Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] trace: Add event "guest_inst_before"

["Lluís Vilanova" <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>]

Richard Henderson writes:

> On 09/10/2017 09:19 AM, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
>> while (true) {
>> +        target_ulong pc_insn = db->pc_next;

> Why not just "pc"?

>> +
db-> num_insns++;
ops-> insn_start(db, cpu);
>> tcg_debug_assert(db->is_jmp == DISAS_NEXT);  /* no early exit */
>> @@ -96,6 +98,7 @@ void translator_loop(const TranslatorOps *ops, DisasContextBase *db,
>> if (db->num_insns == 1) {
>> trace_guest_bbl_before_tcg(cpu, tcg_ctx.tcg_env, db->pc_first);
>> }
>> +        trace_guest_inst_before_tcg(cpu, tcg_ctx.tcg_env, pc_insn);

> I prefer "insn" over "inst".  There are enough other words that begin with
> "inst" (e.g. instance) to possibly be confusing.  Either that or it's my 20
> years working on gcc that ingrained "insn".  ;-)

Both work for me, so no problem in switching to pc and insn.

Thanks,
  Lluis