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From: Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com>
To: Mark Shinwell <shinwell@codesourcery.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enabling gprof for cross builds
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 02:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060508234927.GA19926@ozlabs.au.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-08 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-08 23:48 Mark Shinwell
2006-05-09  1:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-09  2:05 ` Ben Elliston [this message]
2006-05-09 20:33   ` Mark Shinwell
2006-05-24 12:31     ` Mark Shinwell
2006-05-24 14:28       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-24 17:09         ` Mark Shinwell
2007-04-09 17:46 Sanjay Chadha
2007-04-12  4:08 ` Ben Elliston
2007-04-12 15:13   ` Danny Backx
2007-04-13  1:09     ` John Tytgat
2007-04-19 21:54       ` Danny Backx
2007-04-20 14:28     ` Nick Clifton

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