[PATCH] PowerPC: Fix gprof starting entry point for LE

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Tue Jul 29 20:41:00 GMT 2014


On 07/29/2014 03:00 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> This patch fixes the ELFv2 gprof entry point since the ABI
> does not define function descriptors.  It fixes BZ#17213.
> 
> Checked on powerpc64le and it would be good if I can include it on 2.20
> as well.
> 
> --
> 
> 2013-07-29  Adhemerval Zanella  <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> 	[BZ #17213]
> 	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/entry.h: Fix TEXT_START definition for
> 	powerpc64le.

If it wasn't so close to 2.20 I'd ask to see if we could have written a
regression test case for this that exercises gprof with the new libraries.

We should have a way to have detected that this was broken without having
to manually try gprof.

Cheers,
Carlos.



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