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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:47:58 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/libkern mcount.c
Message-ID:  <20070613184656.N25269@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170706122337y558ca741k273e4babb78c936d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200706130617.l5D6HncF038605@repoman.freebsd.org> <b1fa29170706122337y558ca741k273e4babb78c936d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Kip Macy wrote:

> On 6/12/07, Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> bde         2007-06-13 06:17:48 UTC
>> 
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/libkern          mcount.c
>>   Log:
>>   Unbreak high resolution profiling a little: use dummy asms to prevent
>>   timing loops being optimized away.
>> 
>>   Once apon a time, gcc promised not to optimize away timing loops, but
>>   gcc started optimizing away the call to a null function in the timing
>>   loop here some time between gcc-3.3.3 and gcc-3.4.6, and it started
>>   optimizing away the timing loop itself some time between gcc-3.4.6
>>   and gcc-4.2.
>
> Will this fix the hang on boot that I saw earlier today?

No.  It's unlikely that you even configure profiling.

Bruce



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