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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-01-16 12:43:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-01-16 12:43:50 +0100 |
| commit | c570f70846cacf8e5746d6bf4bac0cc46abb6d7a (patch) | |
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open_issues/code_analysis: GCC plugins; CTraps.
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diff --git a/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn b/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn index 98b9b1d5..290bee42 100644 --- a/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn @@ -172,6 +172,20 @@ There is a [[!FF_project 276]][[!tag bounty]] on some of these tasks. Not yet [[ported to the Hurd|community/gsoc/project_ideas/gcc_asan]]. + * [GCC plugins](http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins) + + * [CTraps](https://github.com/blucia0a/CTraps-gcc) + + > CTraps is a gcc plugin and runtime library that inserts calls to runtime + > library functions just before shared memory accesses in parallel/concurrent + > code. + > + > The purpose of this plugin is to expose information about when and how threads + > communicate with one another to programmers for the purpose of debugging and + > performance tuning. The overhead of the instrumentation and runtime code is + > very low -- often low enough for always-on use in production code. In a series + > of initial experiments the overhead was 0-10% in many important cases. + * Input fuzzing Not a new topic; has been used (and a paper published) for early UNIX |