Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Nju,

> > Can you help with this ?  I
> > am rather swamped with my real job at the moment and about to go off on
> > holiday, so I do not really have the time to look into it. :-(

> How can I help out?

I guess the question is - do you want to debug gprof and find out where 
these spurious references are coming from.  I would suggests starting 
with the BFD library and in particular the function 
_bfd_elf_find_nearest_line() in bfd/elf.c.  This is probably the 
function that is deciding that there is a match against the _boot and 
_boot0 symbols.  You need to find out what address it is being given to 
match when it returns these symbols and then decide whether the address 
is valid but the symbol is wrong (implies a bug in BFD's nearest_line 
code) or if the address is wrong (implies a bug in gprof's reading of 
the profile data).

Cheers
  Nick