RE: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Adam Sulmicki
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Dave Korn wrote: Is that your idea of an apology? Regardless of topicality there's no reasonable reading of Ian's words as a flame, they were entirely polite and well-measured, and you should withdraw your baseless accusation and say sorry rather than trying to rationalis

Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Joe Buck
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:24:35PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03 January 2007 19:08, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > > >> I told you was to use the gcc-help mailing list, which was correct. > > > >> So this seems to be a bug in gcc: it should be calli

RE: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 January 2007 19:08, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > >> I told you was to use the gcc-help mailing list, which was correct. > >> So this seems to be a bug in gcc: it should be calling _mcount. > > It just that it is my impression that gcc list is more >

Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Adam Sulmicki
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: I told you was to use the gcc-help mailing list, which was correct. So this seems to be a bug in gcc: it should be calling _mcount. It just that it is my impression that gcc list is more appropriate for gcc bugs than gcc-help. I also did my bes

Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trivia time: what is the longest delay between a bug being committed > to gcc before someone notices and a fix being committed? This one is > eleven years and eight months. I wonder if we have a record. As it happens, I can beat that. I've found a bug

Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Andrew Haley
H. J. Lu writes: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:18:36AM -0800, Seongbae Park wrote: > > >In fact, by default, gcc for the i386 targets will call _mcount. gcc > > >for i386 GNU/Linux targets was changed to call mcount instead of > > >_mcount with this patch: > > > > > >Thu Mar 30 06:20:36 1995

Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Seongbae Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I remember someone wanting to provide his own mcount(). > Presumably, mcount() is weak in libc to cover such a use case ? Yes, mcount() is weak in libc. But it seems to me that you can provide your own mcount even if it has to be named _mcount, since

Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread H. J. Lu
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:18:36AM -0800, Seongbae Park wrote: > >In fact, by default, gcc for the i386 targets will call _mcount. gcc > >for i386 GNU/Linux targets was changed to call mcount instead of > >_mcount with this patch: > > > >Thu Mar 30 06:20:36 1995 H.J. Lu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >

Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Seongbae Park
On 03 Jan 2007 10:07:57 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adam Sulmicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In spirit making OSS better, I took the extra effor to report > findings back to both lists. In reward I got flamed on both list. You got flamed on the gcc list? I

Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Adam Sulmicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In spirit making OSS better, I took the extra effor to report > findings back to both lists. In reward I got flamed on both list. You got flamed on the gcc list? I don't see any flames there. All I told you was to use the gcc-help mailing

gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

2007-01-03 Thread Adam Sulmicki
Hello folks, This is my last post on the subject of mcount. I have spent a quite bit of time on this to find out that the results of myserious crashes is the mcount variable. (with help from Ian Lance Taylor). I have reported the issue to both gcc and mp