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- From: qbarnes@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Quentin Barnes)
- Subject: Re: dead header files?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.070341.28710@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
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- References: <1992Dec31.205436.6039@urbana.mcd.mot.com> <16186@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:03:41 GMT
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- In <16186@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
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- >>prof.h
- >>------
- >>This is another very machine-dependent file (asm()s only) which was
- >>never ported to our R4 environment. It is not referenced anywhere
- >>in our R4 source base.
-
- >Err, not even by "/usr/man/man5/prof.5"? "prof(5)" in the SVR4
- >documentation I have here mentions it, and also can be used to figure
- >out why none of the code in your R4 source base refers to it. (Hint -
- >it's included only by programs that are being built with profiling
- >turned on, and that have had stuff stuck into them to do profiling with
- >finer-than-procedure resolution.)
-
- I knew I should have grepped our documentation base before posting that
- note. Of the three header files, prof(5) is the only hit.
-
- Looks like I have a problem report to file against our <prof.h> header
- file. Thanks for the pointer.
-
- --
- Quentin Barnes
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