Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:21:46 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: itimer patch and profiling
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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> I have tried Eli's itimer patch for profiling, and it certainly seems to
> work fine.

Thanks for testing and for the fedback.

> Perhaps someone who's familiar with the itimer code should improve the
> test, so we can have some confidence that we won't break them anymore.

I sent an improved version of itimer.c from djtst to DJ.  That was the
version I used to debug some of the problems.  Of course, there's no
end to testing, so I guess any test code can be improved.  Volunteers
are welcome, as always.

Btw, the itimer code is not very difficult to understand.  I knew
almost nothing about it when I sat down to debug the profiling
problems, but after staring at the code for about 30 minutes I think
understood it all, and even found a few additional bugs that weren't
mentioned in the bug reports.  (And no, I don't consider myself a
person who easily understands fine details of someone else's code.)