Re: [RFA] Version 2 of patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command

Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-17T23:59:00Z

> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 01:43:02 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>
> > Emacs uses monstartup and manages to solve both of these problems.
> > See the file src/emacs.c (search for "etext") for the details.
>
> from emacs 20.7:
>
> > /* Gerd Moellmann <gerd@acm.org> says this makes profiling work on
> > FreeBSD. It might work on some other systems too.
> > Give it a try and tell me if it works on your system. */
[...]
> I get the feeling that this is work in progress.

This file is almost 2 years old. Since then, this code was proven to
run unmodified on quite a few platforms.

Anyway, I don't want to continue arguing about this. As long as you
know that the problems Jason raised can be solved with simple and
quite portable code, all the rest is your judgement call.