Re: -ffunction-sections and profiling

[Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>]

Greetings!

"John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> writes:

> > I wonder if jda has a comment about how to reach certain functions
> > by means of more complex stubs?
> 
> This was done here:
> 
> 2003-11-27  Randolph Chung  <tausq@debian.org>
>             John David Anglin  <dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
> 
> 	* pa.c (hppa_profile_hook): Split gen_call_profiler into separate
> 	insns.  Use the regular call expander for the call to the profiler.
> 
> What version of gcc are you using?
> 

3.3.3


> There's always the potential for the stub table to get too large.
> You can play with the ld option --stub-group-size=N.  Another possibility
> is to build PA 2.0 code.

Thanks, will try the 2.0.  Does this limit the binary in any practical
way? 

Take care,


> 
> Dave
> -- 
> J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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> 
> 

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