Re: draft mcount(3) man page

2021-05-21 Thread Paul Goyette
On Sat, 22 May 2021, David Holland wrote: To cut down on future confusion we should probably (if it's not excessively expensive for some reason) change all the compiler configs to call "__mcount_hook" and change the name of the C function to always be "__mcount_impl" or "__mcount_backend" or som

Re: draft mcount(3) man page

2021-05-21 Thread David Holland
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 05:29:30PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > This looks awesome, David, thanks for writing it! :-) > Might it be worth noting some of the historical legacy symbol > naming issues that were are the root of the bug report we were just > talking about a little while ago? Aft

Re: draft mcount(3) man page

2021-05-21 Thread Jason Thorpe
> On May 21, 2021, at 5:06 PM, David Holland wrote: > > The workings of the various *mcount functions are confusing and > currently undocumented. After wading into it just now for I think the > third time recently, I wrote the following to ease the process. This looks awesome, David, thanks f

draft mcount(3) man page

2021-05-21 Thread David Holland
The workings of the various *mcount functions are confusing and currently undocumented. After wading into it just now for I think the third time recently, I wrote the following to ease the process. Comments? -- .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2021 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" All rights reserved.