Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: .exe magic doesn't work with gprof
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:28:59 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; 	charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In-Reply-To: <dbkpm1$oaf$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <SERRANOf0YwXtNfsSJY00000625@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

----Original Message----
>From: Krzysztof Duleba
>Sent: 20 July 2005 07:07

> .exe magic doesn't work with gprof. Any ideas why?

  And indeed, it doesn't work the other way round... [carrying on from your
testcase:]

dk AT mace /artimi/firmware/test> mv foo.exe foo
dk AT mace /artimi/firmware/test> rm gmon.out
dk AT mace /artimi/firmware/test> ./foo
dk AT mace /artimi/firmware/test> gprof foo.exe
foo.exe: No such file or directory
dk AT mace /artimi/firmware/test> gprof foo
Flat profile:


  Exe magic is not applied to command line arguments by the shell, otherwise
it might mangle plaintext or options: exe magic is applied when an
application tries to open a file that doesn't exist.  gprof doesn't open foo
or foo.exe; it opens gmon.out.  The exe magic would have to modify the
contents of gmon.out in accord with gprof's internal binary format to make a
difference here.  


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/