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Re: [RFA] patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: [RFA] patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:03:58 -0400
- Cc: Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist at molenda dot com>,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010910175506.22041C-100000@is>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
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>> a check of *BSD's man pages also points to monstartup() and profil(). i
>> dont think you should be trying to implement those.
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>
> I'm not sure I understand--are you saying monstartup shouldn't be used by
> this feature? If so, why not? I think it should be used if available,
> since it avoids the annoying problem of profiling some random startup
> code.
no, just that i dont think i should be asking jason to add the mechanism.
andrew