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-rw-r--r--gprof/gprof.texi6
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gprof/ChangeLog b/gprof/ChangeLog
index e6772f3..a57e13d 100644
--- a/gprof/ChangeLog
+++ b/gprof/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-06-12 Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
+
+ * gprof.texi (File Format): Profile data files are stored in
+ target byte order, not host byte order.
+
2001-05-16 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
* gmon_io.c (gmon_io_read, gmon_io_write_vma,
diff --git a/gprof/gprof.texi b/gprof/gprof.texi
index 2008da7..b7e3388 100644
--- a/gprof/gprof.texi
+++ b/gprof/gprof.texi
@@ -1836,9 +1836,9 @@ format.
The new file format is defined in header file @file{gmon_out.h}. It
consists of a header containing the magic cookie and a version number,
as well as some spare bytes available for future extensions. All data
-in a profile data file is in the native format of the host on which
-the profile was collected. @sc{gnu} @code{gprof} adapts automatically to the
-byte-order in use.
+in a profile data file is in the native format of the target for which
+the profile was collected. @sc{gnu} @code{gprof} adapts automatically
+to the byte-order in use.
In the new file format, the header is followed by a sequence of
records. Currently, there are three different record types: histogram