i#140 pcprof: add client pc sampling support (#2883)

Added dr_where_am_i() to better support client self-profiling via
sampling.  This also provides the fragment tag, by refactoring
the pcprofile code into a new helper fcache_refine_whereami().

Renamed the whereami types to better avoid name conflicts:
s/WHERE_xxx/DR_WHERE_xxx/ and s/where_am_i_t/dr_where_am_i_t/.
Exported the dr_where_am_i_t enum.

Fixed a bug where an uninitialized mcontext was passed to a
client timer callback: we only filled in the mcontext for a
DR-internal callback.

Added a test of client sampling to client.timer

Issue: #140
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  2. clients/
  3. core/
  4. ext/
  5. libutil/
  6. make/
  7. suite/
  8. third_party/
  9. tools/
  10. .appveyor.yml
  11. .travis.yml
  12. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  13. CMakeLists.txt
  14. CONTRIBUTING.md
  15. CTestConfig.cmake
  16. License.txt
  17. README
  18. README.md
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About DynamoRIO

DynamoRIO is a runtime code manipulation system that supports code transformations on any part of a program, while it executes. DynamoRIO exports an interface for building dynamic tools for a wide variety of uses: program analysis and understanding, profiling, instrumentation, optimization, translation, etc. Unlike many dynamic tool systems, DynamoRIO is not limited to insertion of callouts/trampolines and allows arbitrary modifications to application instructions via a powerful IA-32/AMD64/ARM/AArch64 instruction manipulation library. DynamoRIO provides efficient, transparent, and comprehensive manipulation of unmodified applications running on stock operating systems (Windows, Linux, or Android) and commodity IA-32, AMD64, ARM, and AArch64 hardware. Mac OSX support is in progress.

Existing DynamoRIO-based tools

Tools built on DynamoRIO and provided in our release package include:

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