Intel(R) SDE 9.0 Release Announcement

[AdyT_Intel]

There is a new release for Intel® software development emulator (SDE) with support for developing binary instrumentation (pin) tools with SDE services.

It is available here: http://www.intel.com/software/sde.

See the release notes for more details.

[Shorty]

-code_pattern options are not documented on the command line. What are the options? Says “default none” but if you specify no option, sde aborts.

[AdyT_Intel]

The code-pattern analysis tool is a generic analysis tools that looks for pre-defined code patterns.

It was designed as a generic tool that we can add more patterns to detect. Currently the only available pattern is the misaligned-branch pattern. It is looking for branch instructions that cross 32 bytes alignment. These are considered as a source for performance problems.