From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
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 08:58:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010910175506.22041C-100000@is>
References: <3B9CE0C6.5060700@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00135.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.

> (Eli?) should the doco include a reference to moncontrol(3)?

It's not clear to me why this is needed.  Is this issue important for 
some reason?

>  would having the call in main() be better - turn it off at 
> the earliest possible moment?

How about using __attribute__((constructor)) if available?