[webkit-dev] WebKit memory instrumentation

[Yury Semikhatsky]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Yury Semikhatsky <yurys at chromium.org> wrote:
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> *
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> First option we consider is to define a class with the same set of fields
> as the instrumented one, then have a compile time assert that size of the
> reference class equals to the size of the instrumented one. See
> https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=153479&action=review for more
> details.
>
> Pros: compile time error whenever size of an instrumented class changes
> with the appropriate modifications to the instrumentation function.
> Cons: it will require each committer to adjust the reference class and the
> instrumentation on any modification that affects size of the instrumented
> class. Changes that don't affect size of the class will go unnoticed.
> *
>
>
> What is the advantage of this approach compared to just using the sizeof
> operator on the relevant classes?
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>
Summing up sizeof type of each field and parent class and comparing it to
sizeof the class would do the same thing except that we would need
sometimes to manually handle alignment discrepancies on different platforms.
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