On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:48:20AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:48:20 +0200 > To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com > Subject: Re: [patch] fix profiling in glibc for Linux/MIPS > From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> > > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > _mcount was doing awful things to its caller's stack frame. > > Maybe I'm missing something, but both the old and the new code > add 8 byte more to sp than they subtracted before. How is this > supposed to work? _mcount has some odd special calling convention. I don't recall any official standard that defines _mcount's calling convention but gcc uses it the same way as the proprietary compiler I tried. Ralf
