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bug#20843: 24.5; Profiler error: "Invalid sampling interval"


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#20843: 24.5; Profiler error: "Invalid sampling interval"
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:12:47 +0300

> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 07:57:13 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 20843@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > For me to understand, does this mean we never will be able to start the
> > profiler under Cygwin Emacs?
> 
> I wouldn't say "never".  According to the Cygwin API documentation 
> (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html), "getitimer and setitimer only 
> support ITIMER_REAL for now."  I'll ask on the Cygwin list about the 
> possibility 
> of supporting ITIMER_PROF.

If what Corinna suggested on the Cygwin list doesn't fit the bill,
perhaps consider reusing the w32 code, which emulates setitimer, and
does support ITIMER_PROF well enough for the profiler to be usable.





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