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Re: [RFC] Deprecating mtrace?
- From: pinskia at gmail dot com
- To: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 11:27:23 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecating mtrace?
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> On Nov 3, 2013, at 11:17 AM, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai@seznam.cz> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 07:01:07PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>>> On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Ondrej Bilka wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does someone still use mtrace when valgrind is better and faster?
>>
>> And doesn't support most of the platforms glibc does.
> From valgrind homepage
>
> It runs on the following platforms: X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM/Linux,
> PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux, MIPS64/Linux,
> ARM/Android (2.3.x and later), X86/Android (4.0 and later), X86/Darwin
> and AMD64/Darwin (Mac OS X 10.7, with limited support for 10.8).
>
> Please state which are platforms that are supported by glibc and
> improtant programs running only on that platform needs mtrace
AARCH64 is one which is important that is not currently supported by valgrind
>
>>> Comments?
>>
>> It's always inappropriate to deprecate a documented public interface
>> without updating the documentation (not that I think this deprecation
>> makes sense anyway).
> of course this is starting point as also NEWS should be updated.