This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: .exe magic doesn't work with gprof
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: Krzysztof Duleba <krzysan at skrzynka dot pl>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:39:56 +0000
- Subject: Re: .exe magic doesn't work with gprof
>
> But how does gprof know that foo doesn't exist? It has to open or stat it.
> I thought that both open and stat calls support exe magic.
stat() and exec*() support exe magic, open() does not. I don't know
exactly how gprof works, but it is probably doing an open() and failing,
and as such needs to be patched if exe magic is desirable. (Same goes
to the binutils strip).
--
Eric Blake
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/