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

Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
Mon Sep 24 14:53:00 GMT 2001


> 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 ;-)



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