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

Andrew Cagney
2001-09-10T09:04:00Z

> 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