[RFA] Correction to gprof.texi

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Tue Jun 12 03:42:00 GMT 2001


Hi Ben,

> I am resubmitting this patch from several months ago; perhaps it was 
> dropped on the floor?

I guess that it must have, sorry.

> I have not checked it in myself, since I am not
> absolutely certain that it is correct.  Could someone review it? 

It is correct.  Gprof is using the bfd routines to perform byte
swapping based on readin in data in the target's byte order and then
processing them in the host's byte order.

> 2001-06-12  Ben Elliston  <bje@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* gprof.texi (File Format): Profile data files are stored in
> 	target byte order, not host byte order.

Approved and applied.

Cheers
        Nick



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