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index 314c8ee703..c1a08d379c 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/ppc-mcount.S
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/ppc-mcount.S
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* PowerPC-specific implementation of profiling support.
- Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1997, 1999, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -24,25 +24,19 @@
#include <sysdep.h>
-/* We do profiling as described in the SYSV ELF ABI, _mcount is called
- with the address of a data word in r0 (that is different for every
- routine, initialised to 0, and otherwise unused). The caller has put
- the address the caller will return to in the usual place on the stack,
- 4(r1). _mcount is responsible for ensuring that when it returns no
- argument-passing registers are disturbed, and that the LR is set back
- to (what the caller sees as) 4(r1).
+/* We do profiling as described in the SYSV ELF ABI, except that glibc
+ _mcount manages its own counters. The caller has put the address the
+ caller will return to in the usual place on the stack, 4(r1). _mcount
+ is responsible for ensuring that when it returns no argument-passing
+ registers are disturbed, and that the LR is set back to (what the
+ caller sees as) 4(r1).
This is intended so that the following code can be inserted at the
front of any routine without changing the routine:
.data
- .align 2
- 0: .long 0
- .previous
mflr r0
- lis r11,0b@ha
stw r0,4(r1)
- addi r0,r11,0b@l
bl _mcount
*/