am planning to cross compile gcrt1.c (source files )with mips-linux-gcc.
Will let you know the output.

Thanks
--viswanath reddy

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28 PM, David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>wrote:

> 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
>