Re: Gprofiling Missing gcrt1.o Object file

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

Viswanath wrote:
> Hi,
>           I am trying to profile (gprof profiling) my application which 
> is cross-compiled for the target Mips system [*Linux Mips 2.6.8.1]* and 
> UCLIBC *uclibc-crosstools_gcc-3.4.2_uclibc-20050502. *As far as i 
> searched in the google i could see a requirement of gcrt1.o object file 
> for the mips linux which is not available on the mips-linux.
>           I tried linking with crt1.o but i could not get accurate 
> profiling information. I came to know that gcrt1.o is required to get 
> the accurate information. Where can i get the so called gcrt1.o for 
> Mips-linux.
gcrt1.o should be part of the C library (uClibc in your case).  If it is 
 not providing it, it is a bug in uClibc.
Actually I don't even know it uClibc supplies a gcrt1.o.  Our build 
doesn't seem to have one.  If you build a glibc based system, that would 
give you a working gcrt1.o
David Daney