Re: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but...

From: Dimitris Michailidis (dimitris@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 14:42:32 EST


Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> writes:

> IKD triggered problems (likely bugs in previous GCC versions) if regparm
> was used together with -pg (GCC's function-prologue profiling extension
> calling _mcount).

This particular bug is still present in gcc and has to do with the way gcc
supports the older prof format (-p).
ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/kernprof/download/gcc-patch has a patch to fix
the regparm/-pg combination at the expense of breaking -p further.

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Dimitris Michailidis                    dimitris@engr.sgi.com

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