[patch] Add external symbol table file support for gprof

Matthias Klose doko@ubuntu.com
Sun Jun 14 16:23:00 GMT 2009


Dongsheng Xing schrieb:
> Hi, Matthias,
> 
>     I am sorry for the mistake I made. 
>     I cannot regenerate the ``expects type long unsigned int *'' warning on my computer with gcc 4.4.0. But I guess this warning is caused by '%lx'. I wish that the following patch will take out the warning.
> 
>     Best Regards,
>     Homer
>     
> 
> diff -rup binutils-2.19.51.origin/gprof/corefile.c binutils-2.19.51/gprof/corefile.c
> --- binutils-2.19.51.origin/gprof/corefile.c	2009-06-14 21:00:29.000000000 +0800
> +++ binutils-2.19.51/gprof/corefile.c	2009-06-14 21:04:35.000000000 +0800
> @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ core_create_syms_from (const char * sym_
>  
>        sym_init (symtab.limit);
>  
> -      sscanf (address, "%lx", &(symtab.limit->addr) );
> +      sscanf (address, "%" BFD_VMA_FMT "x", &(symtab.limit->addr) );
>  
>        symtab.limit->name = (char *) xmalloc (strlen (name) + 1);
>        strcpy ((char *) symtab.limit->name, name);

thanks, this fixes the build error (on i486-linux-gnu).

  Matthias



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