Re: Efficient x86 and x86_64 NOP microbenchmarks

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> No, I can easily make a patch that does not use frame pointers but 
> still uses -pg. We just can not print the parent function in the 
> trace. This can easily be added to a config, as well as easily 
> implemented.

Why?  You can always get the calling function, because its return 
address is on the stack (assuming mcount is called before the function 
puts its own frame on the stack).  But without a frame pointer, you 
can't necessarily get the caller's caller.

But I think Andi's point is that gcc forces frame pointers on when you 
enable mcount, so there's no choice in the matter.

    J