On 4/23/21 8:49 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > 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?
Haven't tried that.. > > Yeah, I think this is the wrong direction - we're already having > issues with using > malloc, this makes it much worse. I don't see where problem with my patch? It's not adding usage of any additional system routines. Martin > > Richard. > >> Being as self contained as possible (only system calls) would seem >> safer. >> >> -Andi
