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Diffstat (limited to 'frida_mode/src/instrument.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | frida_mode/src/instrument.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/frida_mode/src/instrument.c b/frida_mode/src/instrument.c index 042fdab8..22910062 100644 --- a/frida_mode/src/instrument.c +++ b/frida_mode/src/instrument.c @@ -174,7 +174,13 @@ void instrument_coverage_optimize(const cs_insn * instr, static void on_basic_block(GumCpuContext *context, gpointer user_data) { - /* Avoid stack operations in potentially performance critical code */ + /* + * This function is performance critical as it is called to instrument every + * basic block. By moving our print buffer to a global, we avoid it affecting + * the critical path with additional stack adjustments if tracing is not + * enabled. If tracing is enabled, then we're printing a load of diagnostic + * information so this overhead is unlikely to be noticeable. + */ static char buffer[200]; int len; guint64 current_pc = (guint64)user_data; |