How to submit a new product in binutils

[Yannick PERRET]

Hello,

after trying to write in the 'binutils' mailing list, B.M. Kuhn from GNU
tells
me to try to contact this address.

Here is my request:
I have developped a new C/C++ profiler (for gcc2.95.2+) which dont have
some of the 'gprof' limitations (as described in the .info of gprof).
In particular, it dont "discard" time spend in non-profiled children,
it is able to extract informations from profiled function that are in
dynamic objects.
Main features are flat profile, call-graph, cycles, MIN/MAX time in
functions
(in fact most of the features of gprof), with in addition possibilities
to trace
memory usage, with corresponding call-stack, memory leaks detection,
file:line:object details if requested...

More details are available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fnccheck
or at
http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~yperret/profiler.html


I think it can be useful (and in fact it is currently used by some
contacts
to optimize/debug some GPL products), and that its place would be
in the binutils distrib (I use BFD and some tools from it).
Of course, this is my opinion, and I write to know:
- if you and other people think it can be useful
- if you think that it can be included in the binutils
- if think that improvements are requiered before
- or even if you think that it is not the case at all.

FunctionCheck is under GPL at this time, the V1.4 will be soon available

at sourceforge, and the distribution will contains 'configure' and other
things...

BTW, its output is now supported by Kprof, a graphical interface to
gprof.


Please let me know what you think about that, and what I have to do.

Thank you.

Regards.

--
Yannick Perret
address@hidden
http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~yperret