[RFC] Deprecating mtrace?

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:28:38AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 11/03/2013 08:17 PM, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> 
> >Please state which are platforms that are supported by glibc and
> >improtant programs running only on that platform needs mtrace
> 
> Does Emacs now run without unexec'ing?  That precluded using valgrind on it.

Last I checked, emacs exhausted some (emacs-specific) resource when
loading all the default elisp files in the no-unexec version of emacs
from its bootstrap process. So while it may be possible to debug
certain issues without unexec, I think you'd have a hard time
debugging issues that only show up in a complete emacs environment.

Rich