Re: memprof trouble on debian

[Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org>]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 18:33, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> yves vlaanderen net writes:
> 
> > I have looked at the sources of memprof and noticed some i386
> > asm. My memprob 0.5.0 on debian PPC doesn't seem to find any symbols
> > when i want to look up memleaks... Is this a i386-only app ?
> 
> The i386 asm isn't the (main) reason why it is an i386-only, app, but
> yes, it is an i386 only app.
> 
> (The main reason it is i386-only, is that it doesn't contain the
> necessary code to get stack tracebacks on other architectures - and in
> fact, on many other architectures, a completely different and more
> complex method would be needed. It also (not relevant for ppc32) is
> badly non-64bit-clean.)

Would it be useful to add some code to configure.in which checks the
compiler using gcc -dumpmachine? And if it's not an i386 compiler,
configure bails out? If so, I can provide a patch to do this.



	Kris

> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
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