[PATCH] gprofng: a new GNU profiler

[Ruud van der Pas]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the feedback!

My name is Ruud van der Pas and I’m another member of our gprofng team.

While Vladimir is our code expert, I can help with this question.

> Just taking a quick look at this, I noticed in src/machinemodels there is a
> m5.ermm file that claims to support M5 systems, but doesn't say whose m5
> system it is for.  Presumably this is some oracle system?  Checking the
> code, these are apparently sparc chip names not oracle system names.  

Right. The M5 processor is a SPARC processor, but developed and manufactured
by Fujitsu. In addition to the in-house designed SPARC systems, Oracle also
sold these systems.

> That
> suggests that the file should be sparc-m5.ermm instead.  Or if we will need
> a lot of these files maybe put them in a sparc subdir.  Meanwhile the m5
> name by itself is ambiguous.

Thanks. A very good point and suggestion. We should do this. This is clearly a
legacy issue and has to be handled more clearly and cleanly.

Kind regards, Ruud