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Re: [PATCH] enabling gprof for cross builds
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- To: Mark Shinwell <shinwell at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 09:49:27 +1000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] enabling gprof for cross builds
- References: <445F9A15.7000103@codesourcery.com>
> Does that caveat mean that a configure test (involving the build
> compiler's capability and the pointer size of the target) should be
> used to determine whether to build gprof? I hear that this might be
> overkill.
You should certainly make sure that users aren't tripped up by any
caveats (either at build time, or runtime, if you prefer). Don't
allow the cross-gprof to produce erroneous results.
Thanks for doing this!
Ben