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Re: egcs-19980508 powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.4.0 results (failures with -p/-pg)


 > From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
 > 
 > Meissner noted a while back that the profiling code clobbers r11,
 > which happens to be the static chain pointer.  This may account
 > for the lossage when profiling in the presense of nested functions.
 > 
 > jeff

Jeff,

	Hpux9 w/gas also fails when using -p/-pg with nested functions. 
(Eg, 931002-1.c, 921017-1.c.)  So perhaps you could investigate/fix on
the PA.  If the two problems stem from conceptually similar issues it
might provide assistance to help on AIX. 

		--Kaveh
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