On 31.07.2018 10:28, Christos Zoulas wrote: > In article <2c408f23-6eae-da00-dfb2-ebc7b66e689c%gmx.com@localhost>, > Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote: >> >> I'm for removal of gprof and deduplication of .a files in the base. >> >> While there, can we get rid of moncontrol(3), profil(2) and all the >> corresponding code? > > 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 > The original proposal contained an analysis of gperftools as an immediate replacement through pkgsrc (it requires Perl). 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).
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