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

Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-24T14:53:00Z

> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:32:15 -0700
> From: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
>
> I'm a little hesitant to use this emacs code... besides having an
> #ifdef FreeBSD around it, it uses the address of a certain function
> for the beginning of the text section -- hardcoded. So unless
> someone can guess which one of gdb's functions is going to end up
> at the beginning of .text, I don't see how that'd work.

The first function in the binary is the first function the linker
sees. If this is platform-dependent in GDB, we could simply arrange
for an empty function that every platform links in.

> Okay, I would have been happier if someone had just said "Approved!"
> and it had gone in immediately :-)

I can't be that someone: it's not my responsibility ;-)