Re: [RFA] patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>]

> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:52:45 -0700
> From: Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>
> 
> > i think the command should always be present.  looking at the patch, it 
> > appears to have started out that way.
> 
> I'd disagree.  First, these functions are not very portable.  Our
> very own RH 6.2 box that is sourceware.cygnus.com does not have
> moncontrol() or monstart(), and -pg doesn't seem to be usable at
> all.  My RH 7.1 box at home works fine.  MacOS X's FreeBSD works
> fine.

We could autoconfiscate this, couldn't we?

> I just re-read the man page, it doesn't matter where it's disabled.  The
> gmon.out file is going to be overwritten each time gdb is run no matter
> what.

Not if we use monstartup: the file is not touched unless monstartup is
called.