[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Henderson) wrote on 11.03.05 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:48:35AM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > > > Isn't a compiler option -fglobalize-symbol also a form of source-level > > > instrumentation? Either way, you need the source, and you get different > > > code emitted. > > > > This isn't a source-level modification, by definition. > > For some definition of definition. > > I, for one, do not like the idea of this extension at all. > Seems to me that if you have the source, you might as well > modify it. I see no particular reason to complicate things > just to accomodate an aversion to using patch(3). You have a library implementation of patch(1)? ;-) Anyway, that seems to be very much the wrong tool to me. For stuff like thes, you'd really want a tool that understands C, so it can make a certain modification for certain syntactical places. You wouldn't want to implement -finstrument-functions with patch, either, would you? MfG Kai
