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Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries
From: |
Njuguna Njoroge |
Subject: |
Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:14:50 -0700 |
Hi Nick,
Thanks for your response. Please see below.
Nju
Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Njuguna,
>
> > I observed that when gprof is executed w/ binaries targeted for the
> > PowerPC (like the 405D in our case), gprof inserts functions in the
> > histogram and call graph tables that were never executed (i.e. their
> > addresses were never referenced).
>
> Actually what is probably happening is that gprof is trying to associate
> an address in the executable with a function name, and it is this
> association which is going wrong. So for example the reference to
> Letext is probably actually an address somewhere near the end of the
> .text section.
>
> This problem may be a result of the debug format that you are using, or
> it may be a binutils problem. You could try upgrading to the 2.15
> binutils release
The 2.15 release uses gprof version 2.14, which is the same one that came with
the binutils 2.14 release.
> and if that does not work then you could try the
> current mainline sources in the CVS repository.
> Failing that if you can
> create a small, reproducible test case we can try to look into it ourselves.
Do you want the binary (elf file) and the gmon.out file?
> Cheers
> Nick
- gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Njuguna Njoroge, 2004/08/03
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Nick Clifton, 2004/08/18
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries,
Njuguna Njoroge <=
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Njuguna Njoroge, 2004/08/23
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Nick Clifton, 2004/08/24
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Njuguna Njoroge, 2004/08/26
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Njuguna Njoroge, 2004/08/26
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Nick Clifton, 2004/08/27
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Njuguna Njoroge, 2004/08/30
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Nick Clifton, 2004/08/31
- Re: gprof 2.14 glitches w/ powerpc elf binaries, Njuguna Njoroge, 2004/08/31