Re: Adding new feature - Kcov

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> Why would you store pointers in integers at all?  Surely the right
>> thing to do is store them as void * (for data pointers) or
>> void (*)() (for function pointers)...?
> kcov utilizes compiler instrumentation that uses low-lever, below the
> C and C++ language (or runtime), thus here it doesn't matter what's
> the exact storage type of a pointer.  For simplicity of a kCov
> runtime we store the pointers as integers.

If it's that machine-dependent, shouldn't this be on the relevant
port-* list(s), rather than tech-kern?  Or am I missing something else?

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