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git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@2479

diff --git a/coregrind/vg_transtab.c b/coregrind/vg_transtab.c
index 47c3fed02744591ddfcb22a8e442e1b7d94ef60c..e954ef80ca599dcefd6fecf927fc90d5e3adeb40 100644 (file)
--- a/coregrind/vg_transtab.c
+++ b/coregrind/vg_transtab.c
@@ -391,6 +391,11 @@ Int maybe_commission_sector ( void )
          vg_tc[s] = VG_(get_memory_from_mmap) 
                        ( vg_tc_sector_szB, "trans-cache(sector)" );
 #else
+         // Alternative: put translations in an mmap'd file.  The main
+         // reason is to help OProfile -- OProfile can assign time spent in
+         // translations to a particular file.  The file format doesn't
+         // really matter, which is good because it's not really readable,
+         // being generated code but not a proper ELF file.
         Char buf[20];
         static Int count = 0;
         Int fd;
@@ -404,8 +409,7 @@ Int maybe_commission_sector ( void )
         VG_(close)(fd);
 #endif
          vg_tc_used[s] = 0;
-         VG_(sprintf)(msg, "after  allocation of sector %d "
-                           "(size %d)", 
+         VG_(sprintf)(msg, "after  allocation of sector %d (size %d)", 
                            s, vg_tc_sector_szB );
          pp_tt_tc_status ( msg );
          return maybe_commission_sector();