> debian-hppa, can you please advise? Has hppa profiling support? If so, > how can we detect that? Are there other compile modes that we could and > should check for?
yes, hppa has profiling support. we fixed it recently... how about if you compile a small test program with -g -pg, run it and see if it generates a gmon.out file? or if you don't want to have to run a test program (e.g. if you support cross compiling) maybe you can try to build a program that has at least one function call, do a disassembly on it (objdump -d foo) and see if get calls to _mcount, which will indicate to profiling is enabled. randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/
