[fpc-pascal] Get all caller adresses of a procedure/function

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Monday 06 August 2012 20:12:41 schrieb Sven Barth:
> The problem here is the following:
>
> Let's suppose the opcode for calling a function on x86 CPUs is 0xCA11.
> Now you scan through the code looking for 0xCA11 followed by 4 bit. 
Byte :-)
> The 
> problem now is that without knowing the context of a found location
> 0xCA11 you don't know whether it is really a call opcode or some
> immediate data that was passed to some previous opcode. This is also an
> obstacle experienced by VM developers for x86 instructions (or CISC
> instructions in general). For RISC instruction sets this is less
> complex, but the problem exists there as well.
If I have the opcode 0xCA11 and the adress of p1 (suppose) 0x6EF7CAB0 then I 
have 6 bytes (0xCA116EF7CAB0). That reduces drastically the possibility of 
some immediate random data. I have to search byte by byte then for the 6 
sequential bytes (48 Bits). :-)
>

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> Out of curiosity: why don't you use resourcestrings?

It seems that is has not the flexibility and simplicity (in its entirety) that 
I want. Also it depends on a unit as I see. With resourestring a have to give 
every snippet a name. With my solution it is not necessary.  The names are 
automatically registered in a table (if called once).

> And why do you need the count of calls (or usages)?

I need the count of p1's to see if every snipped was already called by the 
program. This is important when adding a new language or if the original text 
snippets change.

Thers is a table with all snippets and a flag (*) if a snippet was already 
called by the program.

Text1*
Text2*
Text3*
Text4
Text5*
Text6
Text7*
Text8
Text9*
Text10*

4,6 and 8 was not called yet by the program.

But this I can only implement if it is possible to get the whole amount 
(memoryadresses and/or counts) of p1 in the whole program.