>> I agree that it would be better to retire gprof in base, because >> there are more powerful tools now, and also advanced hardware >> support (PMC, PEBS, ProcessorTrace).
...for ports that _have_ "advanced hardware support", maybe. (And what are the "more powerful tools"? I haven't been following the state of the art in open-source profiling tools.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B