From:	Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
Message-Id:	<200009260710.JAA04943@lws256.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject:	Re: (fwd) startup-code
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:10:34 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To:	<1438-Tue26Sep2000091406+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Sep 26, 2000 09:14:07 AM
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> > I got the idea to check what Linux does. And guess what? The magic
> > word is "PROVIDE" and everybody will be happy!
> 
> Yep, looks just like what we need.
> 
> However, Someone(tm) needs to make sure this works with DJGPP.
> Profiling would be a good test case, I guess.

No. For mcount.c's "etext", I suggest we correct mcount.c. Otherwise a
program that uses etext will not break until the poor coder tries to
profile his code.


Right,

						MartinS

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