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diff --git a/jemalloc/INSTALL b/jemalloc/INSTALL index e0a5dc4..11a457a 100644 --- a/jemalloc/INSTALL +++ b/jemalloc/INSTALL @@ -62,18 +62,23 @@ any of the following arguments (not a definitive list) to 'configure': --enable-prof Enable heap profiling and leak detection functionality. See the "opt.prof" - option documentation for usage details. + option documentation for usage details. When enabled, there are several + approaches to backtracing, and the configure script chooses the first one + in the following list that appears to function correctly: ---disable-prof-libgcc - Disable the use of libgcc's backtracing functionality. Ordinarily, libgcc's - backtracing functionality is superior to the alternatives, but it may fail - to capture backtraces on some systems. + + libunwind (requires --enable-prof-libunwind) + + libgcc (unless --disable-prof-libgcc) + + gcc intrinsics (unless --disable-prof-gcc) --enable-prof-libunwind Use the libunwind library (http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/) for stack - backtracing. libunwind is quite slow, but it tends to work across a wider - variety of system configurations than the default backtracing code, which is - based on libgcc functionality or gcc intrinsics. + backtracing. + +--disable-prof-libgcc + Disable the use of libgcc's backtracing functionality. + +--disable-prof-gcc + Disable the use of gcc intrinsics for backtracing. --with-static-libunwind=<libunwind.a> Statically link against the specified libunwind.a rather than dynamically |