Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:02:53 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Probblem: Debug info COFF vs. stabs
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> I have some patches at home, some for gcc (the '-a'
> profiling is broken since the '-ax' one was introduced, in the original
> FSF sources, and '-a' output is not written to a gprof-style file), others
> for BFD (fix and speed up the 'find_nearest_line' function for COFF and
> stabs, partly off the net)  and gprof itself. 

I would think that line-level profiling only needs a macro like MARK, and 
all the rest is automagic, since gprof doesn't even know the symbols 
generated by MARK aren't real functions.  Is there something else?