[RFC] Deprecating mtrace?

pinskia@gmail.com pinskia@gmail.com
Sun Nov 3 19:27:00 GMT 2013



> On Nov 3, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 07:01:07PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>>> On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Ondrej Bilka wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Does someone still use mtrace when valgrind is better and faster?
>> 
>> And doesn't support most of the platforms glibc does.
> From valgrind homepage
> 
> It runs on the following platforms: X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM/Linux,
> PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux, MIPS64/Linux,
> ARM/Android (2.3.x and later), X86/Android (4.0 and later), X86/Darwin
> and AMD64/Darwin (Mac OS X 10.7, with limited support for 10.8).
> 
> Please state which are platforms that are supported by glibc and
> improtant programs running only on that platform needs mtrace

AARCH64 is one which is important that is not currently supported by valgrind

> 
>>> Comments?
>> 
>> It's always inappropriate to deprecate a documented public interface 
>> without updating the documentation (not that I think this deprecation 
>> makes sense anyway).
> of course this is starting point as also NEWS should be updated. 



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