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Re: [RFC] Cross-gprof cleanup in gmon_io

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
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