[RFA] gprof static call support for MIPS

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:54:41PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:26:05PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
>  > Is this going to do any good for NetBSD?  I thought I remembered you
>  > saying that NetBSD/MIPS used -mabicalls, when you posted the profiling
>  > patch.  In that case all interesting calls are indirect!
> 
> The kernel does not use abicalls.  We use gprof on kernels, too.

Ah, yes.  Ditto for the Linux kernel.

>  > Then again I don't see abicalls set for netbsd in the community GCC
>  > tree.
> 
> I have a new NetBSD/mips configuration for GCC that is approved, but
> I'm waiting for the other bits of my patch to be approved so I can
> commit it (the MIPS portion depends on changes to the shared NetBSD ELF
> configuration bits).  But, in any case, yes, abicalls is the default
> for userland code.

OK, that makes sense.  I don't know if it's possible to reconstitute
some of the GOT-based calls in the callgraph, but it may be... I'll
have to think about it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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