Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/09/26/10:19:26
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > If I'm still right, then the question whether or not we should change
> > mcount.c is a separate one, to which we can return later. For now, I
> > simply suggested to use mcount.c as a test case to see if PROVIDE works
> > in the DJGPP port of Binutils.
>
> Yes, unless I (or somebody else) decides to try and profile a program
> containing "int etext".
This is a separate problem that existed all the time. We could decide to
change mcount.c to eliminate this problem, but that has nothing to do with
testing whether PROVIDE works. For the latter, leaving mcount.c
unmodified, for as long as you test PROVIDE, is better.
> I'm seeing the problem from the perspective that we pollute the
> namespace, which means the problem isn't completely fixed until we
> don't do that anymore.
We don't have to solve everything in one go. One step at a time is
okay.
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