gprof on powerpc? (it crashes for me)

[Geoff Keating]

> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 07:45:43 -0500
> From: Brad Parker <brad@parker.boston.ma.us>

> I'm trying to use gprof on PowerPC Linux and it's crashing.
> 
>    binutils-2.9.1.0.990418-1c
>    glibc-2.1.1-6c
>    gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> 
> It seems to be crashing in malloc called by IO_new_fopen in libc.  But
> I think the real problem may be bfd...  I suspect something is corrupting
> memory.
> 
> anyone working with powerpc or know about this?

It worked for me with binutils from CVS of about July 1999.  Perhaps
you should upgrade?

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>