From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:04:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B9CE46E.5000706@cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010910175506.22041C-100000@is>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00136.html

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> 
>> a check of *BSD's man pages also points to monstartup() and profil().  i 
>> dont think you should be trying to implement those.
> 
> 
> 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