Re: oprofile and 64-bit machines

[Dave J. <da...@su...>]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 12:10:06AM +0100, John Levon wrote:
 > > I have been looking throught the data oprofile structures and it looks 
 > > like a lot of it is coded to assume the addresses all fit in 32-bits. 
 > > Are there any thoughts into making oprofile 64-bit clean. Maybe have a 
 > > special typedef for eip rather just using u32?
 > 
 > I imagine Dave and Bob will have patches in this area

Yep, I have the beginnings of an x86-64 port at home which does
cleanup usage of eip and so on (x86-64 uses rip instead of eip).
I'll commit the 'obvious' bits when I get back home.

        Dave

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