2 problems with sprof

[Ulrich Drepper]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> There are 2 problems with sprof. First, we don't store the canonical
> filename so that LD_PROFILE=dynfunc.so won't work with

This has runtime impact and just for the benefit of some corner case.
It perfectly reasonable to expect that the user can determine the
SONAME.

> # sprof dynfunc.so
> sprof: failed to load shared object `dynfunc.so': No such file or directory

Again, no problem.  If you don't know exactly which DSO you are
profiling you do something wrong.

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