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The dynamic debugging interface

The dynamic debugging interface

Posted Mar 24, 2011 18:24 UTC (Thu) by daney (subscriber, #24551)
Parent article: The dynamic debugging interface

It might be worth mentioning that systems that support the jump_label feature (x86, sparc, mips with GCC-4.5 or later), that the dynamic degugging makes use of dynamic code patching. The result is that for disabled printks, the overhead is quite low.


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