Re: [PATCH] scripts/recordmcount.pl: Support build with-ffunction-sections.

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 17:43 +0000, Will Newton wrote:

> Ok, well we are only concerned with C compiled code, otherwise there
> would be no calls to mcount? The only way I can think of to cause code
> to be emitted in a section of this type is to use the section
> attribute. A quick grep for __attribute__(__section__ or __section
> does not turn up any sections that are named .text.* on any
> architecture (freed or not).
> 
> Is there any other case I have missed? I also did a grep for .text.
> more generally and didn't see anything that looked problematic
> (although it is mainly .S files so not relevant).

If you feel confident enough, then I'm fine with it. But if any more
network cards get bricked, I'm blaming you.

 ;-)

> 
> >>
> >> > Second, most archs today do not use recordmcount.pl. They use the new
> >> > recordmcount.c file.
> >>
> >> Ok, thanks for letting me know. Is the plan to switch over to
> >> recordmcount.c exclusively at some point?
> >
> > When all the archs convert.
> 
> I'll rework my patch against recordmcount.c once I have it working.

OK, thanks.

-- Steve


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