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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: archer@sourceware.org, ppluzhnikov@google.com
Subject: Re: Improved linker-debugger interface
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Hi -

ppluzhnikov wrote:

> [...] One could hope that upstream glibc would adopt wide probes by
> default, but I would guess that chances of that actually happening
> are nil.

It depends.  If it's out of the hot path, a five or eight-byte noop
may be OK.  Measurements as to the actual impact would help.

- FChE