Re: -frecord-marker

[Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:47:06PM +0100, Adrian Umpleby wrote:
> > Having given this a bit more thought, I've decided that whilst Intel record
> > markers would be nice, all that is really required is the ability to
> > specify 4-byte markers at compile time. If I have understood correctly,
> > this is exactly what your patch does so if it makes it into the mainline
> > then I will be happy.
> > If I can speed along the process of getting it accepted then I'm happy
> > to help out, but it sounds like a project which is easier left to one
> > person.
> > Have you had much positive feedback? Does it look like it's on the way
> > to being accepted?
> 
> I've received the FSF form and filled it in, but I've got to try to
> dig it up again to post back (got a bit lost in all the junk during
> move...)
> 
> I think the first part of the patch (adding the tag) is done in a
> decent enough way, but, as I mentioned, the bit with the compile
> option is probably too much of a hack.
> 
> Also, there's still all the current code that applies the compile
> option only for main - I could leave it in, but it's rather redundant
> once the option acts per object file instead.
> 
> But I'll see if I can tidy up the compile option part of it;
> inparticular, I'll try to find a more sensible way to go about it...
> 
> Bye!
> 
Adrian,

Did you ever pursue this patch?

-- 
Steve