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Re: gprof and int overflow

From: Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt at gmail dot com>
To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:37:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: gprof and int overflow
References: <loom.20090819T071647-82@post.gmane.org> <m3vdkk9ccf.fsf@google.com>

Ian Lance Taylor <iant <at> google.com> writes:

> It's a limitation of the format of the gmon.out file.  The counts are
> defined to be 32-bit integers.  I don't know of any workaround.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 

OK thanks... maybe some day there will be a -pg64 option to gcc or something
like that, since these days I can overflow a 32-bit counter on my coffee break
:-).

-Lewis

References:
- gprof and int overflow
  - From: Lewis Hyatt
- Re: gprof and int overflow
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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