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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: assar@sics.se, jlemon@americantv.com
Subject: Re: gcc
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>> > How about getting profiling working for ELF kernels before
>> > before completely abandoning a.out? 
>> 
>> There are patches for that in kern/9413 but I haven't got any feedback
>> on them at all.
>
>I did try them, they allow the kernel to compile, but they
>don't seem to work.  In particular, the entries made in the
>flat profile section are all out of whack.

Also, all local assembler names are wrong (gprof -u doesn't hide
them), and high resolution profiling (config -pp) is completely broken
(i386/prof_machdep.c doesn't even compile).  I should make it the
default so that it gets maintained.

Bruce


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