Self-Modifying code for user settings optimization

[Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 21:09:05 UTC, Jason Jeffory wrote:
> It might, which is why I asked, seems like it would be 
> something trivial to do if the address of the function and 
> relative address of the "variable" can be gotten at "compile 
> time"(not sure it is possible by maybe one could write an 
> object parser).

There is debug line info, but good luck with most of that after 
the optimizer gets through with the code.

This project provides an api for code patching.  Maybe it will 
help, or at least give you ideas.
http://www.dyninst.org/dyninst

I also have some interest in the ability to add arbitrary named 
markers to code at compile time that could be accessed from 
symbol info.  I'm not interested in modifying the code, but in 
using the addresses to create windows for code measurement.  Our 
hardware supports performance analysis limited to a specified 
address range without instrumenting the code, but with optimized 
code it is difficult to use.