In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harti Brandt wri
tes:
>${subject} seems not to work on -current. First of all 'man kernbb' tells
>me to compile at least one kernel file with '-a'. Well, gcc tells me that
>it doesn't know anything about '-a'. After some grepping in the gcc
>sources I came to the conclusion, that -fprofile-arcs is what it wants.
>But even then 'kernbb' gives me nothing on the new kernel and gdb shows
>bbhead to contain a 0. As far as I could figure out, the profile-arcs uses
>a ctor section and I somehow doubt, that this works in the kernel case.
>
>So, is ${subject} usable on current or is it just a stale feature?
I havn't checked it lately, but it should be brought to work again
I think, it is a very valuable provider of insight into what code
is really executed.
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