Re: ____wcstold_l_internal Question

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Samir Droubi via Libc-help:

> I was profiling a project that I have been working on and the function
> above shows up amongst other internal functions. I was wondering if
> you could shed a light on what could possibly be happening to cause
> calls to this function to be so frequent. Here is the profiling
> result:
>
>   13.72%  mitscriptbc  libc.so.6             [.] ____wcstold_l_internal
>    5.45%  mitscriptbc  libc.so.6             [.] ____wcstof_l_internal
>    2.46%  mitscriptbc  libc.so.6             [.] round_and_return
>    2.28%  mitscriptbc  libc.so.6             [.] ____wcstod_l_internal
>
> The libc version being used is 2.35.

The external name is wcstold or wcstold_l.  If your application isn't
calling that, the profiling data is wrong.  You might find out by
setting a breakpoint or probe on the function.

Thanks,
Florian