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From: Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Symbols not decoded in 0.0.2.PERF
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:55:10 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> * It could be the case that GHC is generating symbols that perf cannot
>> interpret somehow. If we can confirm this is the case we can try to
>> fix that.
>
> I spent the day making sure this is not the case. All the Haskell
> functions now have the correct (fingers crossed) .type and .size ELF
> directives:

Problem solved. There were indeed some functions that didn't have any
.size directives, making perf (or is that objdump?) fail to recognize
the symbols.

Sorry for the noise.

Johan