From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:45:42 GMT
Subject: Re: cleaner/better zlib sources?
Message-ID: <200703162345.42784.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703160841360.3816@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Friday 16 March 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (Btw, to get this level of detail, you need to link statically, at least 
> if you are using Fedora Core. If you do the normal dynamic linking, 
> oprofile will not be able to show you which function, and will just say 
> that 50% of all time was spent in libz.so.1.2.3).

I see the same here on OpenSuse 10.2.
This is because opreport currently does not take symbols from the dynamic
symbol table into account. Patching the symbol loader (I just send a
patch to the oprofile mailing list), I get the same detail with dynamic
linking.

Josef