[PATCH V4] gprofng: a new GNU profiler

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Mon Dec 13 15:13:42 GMT 2021


Hi Vladimir,

>> To me this is a concern as the intention of the binutils project is to
>> support as wide a range of architectures as possible.
>>
>> Is it simple to add other architectures ?  What work needs to be done ?
> 
> We utilize disassembler() from libopcodes and several functions from libbfd which are already cross platform.
> The rest of porting is stack unwinding and hardware counter profiling (It is in binutils-gdb.git/gprofng/libcollector).
> We will start writing a few page porting guide.

OK, well I do not want to hold up this work any longer, so the patch series is approved.  Please apply.

Cheers
   Nick




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