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



  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


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