Re: [BENCHMARK] nproc: netlink access to /proc information

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
>>>This seems to go wrong on big-endian machines; any chance you could look
>>>over your stuff and try to figure out what endianness issues it may have?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> 
>>I went over the code but at a first glance couldn't find a notorius 
>>trouble spot. I don't have big-endian hardware myself so this is hard to 
>>test.
>>Just a few questions to help me out in finding the problem:
>>- is this really an endianess problem or is it a 64-bit integer problem?
> 
> 
> Works fine on x86-64 and alpha. Prints gibberish on sparc64.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> 
>>- are you cross compiling the kernel?
>>Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> No. All native.

Can you send me an ".tmp_kallsyms2.S" obtained after a kernel build on a 
sparc64, so that I can isolate the problem between scripts/kallsyms.c 
and kernel/kallsyms.c?  (maybe gzip'ed and in private, because this can 
be a big file...)

Thanks for all the help in debugging this.

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

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