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Subject: Re: Profiling on RELENG_7 (and probably HEAD)?
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to profile an applications but there's a problem - the
> application crashes in getopt(). I've constructed a simple test case
> that demonstrates this:
> [...]

> The same test case works on a 6.x machine. Am I missing something or is
> profiling broken?
> 

Yes, applications compiled with -pg are broken on i386 platforms. See 
the threads "gcc profiling broken" from 24th October, and "gcc 4.2 
profiling breaks argv" from 3rd August.  A PR should probably be 
submitted for it, especially since it's going to start affecting a lot 
of people.

--
Bruce