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[Ralf Baechle <ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de>]

Hi,

I found a minor profiling bug in the code generator of GCC 2.7.2.
When generating PIC code for a MIPS target the generated code
will not save/restore the GP register for the call to _mcount
for leaf functions (which due to the implicit call to _mcount
aren't really leaf functions) and make the assembler issue
warnings.  Tried on mipsel-linux target but should apply to
all MIPS ELF targets which don't use the 64bit ABI.

The test code which demonstrates this bug is:

foo()
{
}

compilation command used is "gcc -O2 -p -c -o test.o test.c".

  Ralf