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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:40:13 -0700
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: libc/1427: gprof does not profile threads <synopsis of the problem  (one li\ne)>
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On Fri Mar 15, 2002 at 04:19:17PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 13:56, Dan Kegel wrote:
>=20
> > Ulrich, do you at least agree that it would be desirable for
> > gprof to work properly on multithreaded programs?
>=20
> No.  gprof is uselss in today world.

Then why not change sysdeps/generic/initfini.c with something like:

-      if (gmon_start)
+      if (gmon_start && __pthread_initialize_minimal)
          gmon_start ();

So it doesn't even try when threading?

 -Erik

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