Kill off all support for 'gcc -pg' / 'gprof' style profiling. There is both a

size and performance penalty to profiling applications this way, as well as
Heisenberg effects, where the act of measuring changes what is measured.
There are better tools for doing profiling, such as OProfile, that do not
require gcc to instrument the application code.
 -Erik

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diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/mcount.S b/libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/mcount.S
deleted file mode 100644
index 704a7b851..000000000
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/mcount.S
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-/* i386-specific implemetation of profiling support.
-   Copyright (C) 1997, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
-   Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1997.
-
-   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
-   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
-   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-   Lesser General Public License for more details.
-
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
-   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
-   Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
-   02111-1307 USA.  */
-
-
-/* We need a special version of the `mcount' function since for ix86 it
-   must not clobber any register.  This has several reasons:
-     - there is a bug in gcc as of version 2.7.2.2 which prohibits the
-       use of profiling together with nested functions
-     - the ELF `fixup' function uses GCC's regparm feature
-     - some (future) systems might want to pass parameters in registers.  */
-
-        .globl _mcount
-	.type _mcount,@function;
-	.align 1<<4
-_mcount:
-	/* Save the caller-clobbered registers.  */
-	pushl %eax
-	pushl %ecx
-	pushl %edx
-
-	movl 12(%esp), %edx
-	movl 4(%ebp), %eax
-
-	/* No need to access the PLT or GOT, __mcount_internal is an
-	   internal function and we can make a relative call.  */
-	call __mcount_internal
-
-	/* Pop the saved registers.  Please note that `mcount' has no
-	   return value.  */
-	popl %edx
-	popl %ecx
-	popl %eax
-	ret
-	.size _mcount,.-_mcount;
-
-#undef mcount
-.weak mcount ; mcount = _mcount