[RFC] Cross-gprof cleanup in gmon_io

Jason R Thorpe thorpej@wasabisystems.com
Fri Apr 12 17:44:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:00:59PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

 > I think the two of you are talking around each other.... Jason, is
 > sparc64 a 32-bit or 64-bit userland?  i.e. what broken behavior did it
 > fix?

NetBSD/sparc64 has a 64-bit userland natively.  It can run 32-bit
binaries, also.

The problem was that the pre-fixed gprof was reading the "u_long" from
a structure as a 32-bit word, which is obviously wrong for a 64-bit
u_long.  NetBSD/alpha also had the same problem.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>



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