RE: Gprof cycle member list sorting bug

[Robert Norton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Clifton [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 26 September 2007 10:17
> To: Robert Norton
> Subject: Re: Gprof cycle member list sorting bug
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> 
> > Thanks! It's amazing that no-one has reported this before 
> given that it
> > appears to have been present since version 1.1 in CVS.
> 
> That was my main worry when I was reviewing the patch.  
> Surely I thought a bug 
> like this cannot have gone unnoticed for so long.  But I 
> looked at the code and 
> your test case and you are definitely right, so the patch went in.

Curiously in the documentation here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/gprof-2.9.1/html_chapter/gpr
of_5.html#SEC16

the bug is not visible, possibly because it appears to describe a
different version of gprof (one which emits a list of parents for the
cycle as a whole, which current version never do).

Robert