In article <[email protected]>,
Kamil Rytarowski  <[email protected]> wrote:
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>On 31.07.2018 10:28, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Kamil Rytarowski  <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> I'm for removal of gprof and deduplication of .a files in the base.
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>>> While there, can we get rid of moncontrol(3), profil(2) and all the
>>> corresponding code?
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>> I constantly see proposals to remove things from base without replacing
>> the functionality first. Yes, the current state is poor but the 
>> "hand hurts, cut hand" approach is worse.
>> 
>> christos
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>The original proposal contained an analysis of gperftools as an
>immediate replacement through pkgsrc (it requires Perl).

yes, gperftools could fit the bill.

>And while there, there was a process of analysis of the compiler-rt
>profile [coverage] feature during GSoC (while porting libFuzzer, we were
>researching whether we need it at that point - but the conclusion was
>that it's not required for fuzzing).

christos

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