This tracing was originally needed for three reasons:
1. To trace object/raw-code pointers embedded in native code, eg from
@micropython.native functions.
2. To trace pointers to BSS/rodata from relocated viper code.
3. For libffi tracing.
The tracing in point 1 was made unnecessary long ago in commit
7d4b6cc868 (see also commit
bbccb0f630 which removed scanning of native
code on the esp8266 port).
Since the previous commit, point 2 is no longer needed.
For point 3, this was made unnecessary in the recent commit
9796625457.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
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