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Re: egcs-19980508 powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.4.0 results (failures with -p/-pg)
- To: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Subject: Re: egcs-19980508 powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.4.0 results (failures with -p/-pg)
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:13:10 -0600
- cc: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, meissner at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <9806071950.AA12830@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>you write:
> > 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.
>
> I thought this had been solved long ago ? At least on my system I
> don't have any problems profiling Fortran code with statement
> functions, which are implemented as nested functions.
>
> I think it's something specific to the AIX OS.
The problem is the prologue sequences generated by each target; so
it may be the case that the target you work on most of the time
has been fixed, but others haven't.
jeff