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Re: [RFC] Cross-gprof cleanup in gmon_io
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:15:08PM -0700, Ethan Solomita wrote:
> Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:45:25PM -0700, Ethan Solomita wrote:
> >
> > > There were recently some changes to gprof intended to support
> > > cross-compilation. Unfortunately they seem to have broken gprof for
> > > users of 64-bit sparc kernels. Almost always, user apps are 32-bit, and
> > > historically gprof (being built in user space) expected the kernel to
> > > supply it with 32-bit longs and pointers.
> >
> > It actually *fixed* this problem for NetBSD/sparc64.
> >
> I guess one person's backwards incompatibility is another person's bug
> fix. 8)
>
> If this is understood and intended, then that's fine. I wanted to be
> sure before I begin to port kernprof for linux to the new gmon.out
> format.
> -- Ethan
I think the two of you are talking around each other.... Jason, is
sparc64 a 32-bit or 64-bit userland? i.e. what broken behavior did it
fix?
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