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Re: [PATCH] PowerPC: Fix gprof starting entry point for LE
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:41:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC: Fix gprof starting entry point for LE
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On 07/29/2014 03:00 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> This patch fixes the ELFv2 gprof entry point since the ABI
> does not define function descriptors. It fixes BZ#17213.
>
> Checked on powerpc64le and it would be good if I can include it on 2.20
> as well.
>
> --
>
> 2013-07-29 Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> [BZ #17213]
> * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/entry.h: Fix TEXT_START definition for
> powerpc64le.
If it wasn't so close to 2.20 I'd ask to see if we could have written a
regression test case for this that exercises gprof with the new libraries.
We should have a way to have detected that this was broken without having
to manually try gprof.
Cheers,
Carlos.