Why is gprof not build cross?
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Aug 2 18:31:00 GMT 2001
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:38:54PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> My understanding is that gprof isn't really target dependent at all, except
> perhaps via bfd; a casual reading of its source code sustains that. Why is
> it only built in a native configuration? I tried a few cross builds and the
> resulting gprof works just fine.
At one time, gprof code used host data types to determine the output
structures. Thus 32->64 cross builds failed. See gprof/ChangeLog,
2001-03-13 entry, which may have fixed all these issues.
Alan
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