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-rw-r--r--gprof/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gprof/README (renamed from gprof/NOTES)10
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gprof/ChangeLog b/gprof/ChangeLog
index 16e17e2..df9019b 100644
--- a/gprof/ChangeLog
+++ b/gprof/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-07-19 Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
+
+ * NOTES: Rename to README for consistency with other binutils.
+
2001-06-18 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* Makefile.am (diststuff): Add $(MANS).
diff --git a/gprof/NOTES b/gprof/README
index 511af30..8fe2da8 100644
--- a/gprof/NOTES
+++ b/gprof/README
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-Sun Feb 5 16:09:16 1995
+ README for GPROF
+
+This is the GNU profiler. It is distributed with other "binary
+utilities" which should be in ../binutils. See ../binutils/README for
+more general notes, including where to send bug reports.
This file documents the changes and new features available with this
version of GNU gprof.
@@ -111,7 +115,7 @@ Here are some examples:
you must use the colon notation explained
below to specify a function from a specific
source file. Sometimes, functionnames contain
- dots. In such cases, it is necessar to
+ dots. In such cases, it is necessary to
add a leading colon to the name. For example,
":.mul" selects function ".mul".
@@ -433,6 +437,6 @@ be used.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTE: gcc -a can be used to instrument a program to
record basic-block execution counts. However, the __bb_exit_func()
that is currently present in libgcc2.c does not generate a gmon.out
-file in a suiteable format. This should be fixed for future releases
+file in a suitable format. This should be fixed for future releases
of gcc. In the meantime, contact davidm@cs.arizona.edu for a version
of __bb_exit_func() to is appropriate.