[PATCH] Fix profiling on hppa (1/2)

Carlos O'Donell carlos@baldric.uwo.ca
Mon Feb 23 15:01:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:33:56AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:05:05PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > You have to describe in detail every single little change you do to
> > generic code.  Why, what is the impact, ...
> 
> If the arch requires n-bit loads to be n-bit aligned, and
> sizeof(unsigned short) != sizeof(unsigned long) then 'p->froms' can be
> unaligned depending on TEXT_START and etext values, passed in from 
> csu/gmon-start.c (__gmon_start__).

*ping*

Was that a sufficient explanation? Would you like me to resend the
explanation + changelog + inline patch?

Cheers,
c.



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