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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst index 5fb52fe..42d197e 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst @@ -1483,10 +1483,10 @@ Some of the changes to Python's build process and to the C API are: * Python can now be built with additional profiling for the interpreter itself, intended as an aid to people developing the Python core. Providing - :option:`--enable-profiling` to the :program:`configure` script will let you + :option:`!--enable-profiling` to the :program:`configure` script will let you profile the interpreter with :program:`gprof`, and providing the - :option:`--with-tsc` switch enables profiling using the Pentium's Time-Stamp- - Counter register. Note that the :option:`--with-tsc` switch is slightly + :option:`!--with-tsc` switch enables profiling using the Pentium's Time-Stamp- + Counter register. Note that the :option:`!--with-tsc` switch is slightly misnamed, because the profiling feature also works on the PowerPC platform, though that processor architecture doesn't call that register "the TSC register". (Contributed by Jeremy Hylton.) |