On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:47 PM Andi Kleen via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz> writes: > > > Hey. > > > > I/O buffering in gcov seems duplicite to what modern C library can provide. > > The patch is a simplification and can provide easier interface for system > > that don't have a filesystem and would like using GCOV. > > > > I'm going to install the patch after 11.1 if there are no objections. > > > > Patch can bootstrap on x86_64-linux-gnu and survives regression tests. > > What happens if someone compiles the C library with gcov?
Yeah, I think this is the wrong direction - we're already having issues with using malloc, this makes it much worse. Richard. > Being as self contained as possible (only system calls) would seem > safer. > > -Andi
