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Re: Why is gprof not build cross?
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Subject: Re: Why is gprof not build cross?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:01:19 +0930
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010802143854.A10554@nevyn.them.org>
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:38:54PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> My understanding is that gprof isn't really target dependent at all, except
> perhaps via bfd; a casual reading of its source code sustains that. Why is
> it only built in a native configuration? I tried a few cross builds and the
> resulting gprof works just fine.
At one time, gprof code used host data types to determine the output
structures. Thus 32->64 cross builds failed. See gprof/ChangeLog,
2001-03-13 entry, which may have fixed all these issues.
Alan