[MPlayer-advusers] gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 1/3/07, Adam Sulmicki <adam at cfar.umd.edu> wrote:

> Suggested solutions:
>
>         * Rename mcount in mplayer/libmenu/menu.c to something else.
>
>         * document mcount in gcc man page

Actually, it's at least documented in gprof's info page


>         * gcc prints warning.
>
>         * do nothing.
>
> I can immagine that gcc developers might have intentionally left mcount()
> visible to user space so that user can replace gcc's mcount() with their
> own implementation.

Looks like you're right:
http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.17/gprof/Implementation.html

damn! I really don't like that design!

Guillaume
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