commit 547f44124e1a38b8c5c635f673d88054ce6ff0d3
Author: Asim YarKhan <yarkhan@icl.utk.edu>
Date:   Thu Oct 16 12:19:34 2014 -0400

    byte_profile.c: PPC64 add support for PPC64 Little Endian to byte_profile.c
    
    Thanks to Carl Love for this patch and the following description:
    The POWER 8 platform is Little Endian.  It uses ELF
    version 2 which does not use function descriptors.  This
    patch adds the needed #ifdef support to correctly compile
    the test case for Big Endian or Little Endian.
    
    This patch is untested by the PAPI developers (hardware not easily accessible).

diff --git a/src/ctests/byte_profile.c b/src/ctests/byte_profile.c
index 0f33c0d..f693e9f 100644
--- a/src/ctests/byte_profile.c
+++ b/src/ctests/byte_profile.c
@@ -213,9 +213,14 @@ main( int argc, char **argv )
 /* Itanium and PowerPC64 processors return function descriptors instead
  * of function addresses. You must dereference the descriptor to get the address.
 */
-#if defined(ITANIUM1) || defined(ITANIUM2) || defined(__powerpc64__)
+#if defined(ITANIUM1) || defined(ITANIUM2) \
+    || (defined(__powerpc64__) && (_CALL_ELF != 2))
 	start = ( caddr_t ) ( ( ( struct fdesc * ) start )->ip );
 	end = ( caddr_t ) ( ( ( struct fdesc * ) end )->ip );
+        /* PPC64 Big Endian is ELF version 1 which uses function descriptors.
+         *  PPC64 Little Endian is ELF version 2 which does not use
+         * function descriptors
+         */
 #endif
 
 	/* call dummy so it doesn't get optimized away */
commit 14f70ebc77deaad4a3fc3f808613772ef1165137
Author: Asim YarKhan <yarkhan@icl.utk.edu>
Date:   Wed Oct 15 14:48:05 2014 -0400

    PPC64 add support for PPC64 Little Endian to sprofile.c
    
    Thanks to Carl Love for this patch and the following description:
    The POWER 8 platform is Little Endian.  It uses ELF
    version 2 which does not use function descriptors.  This
    patch adds the needed #ifdef support to correctly compile
    the test case for Big Endian or Little Endian.

diff --git a/src/ctests/sprofile.c b/src/ctests/sprofile.c
index e7ee47a..4bd7cc7 100644
--- a/src/ctests/sprofile.c
+++ b/src/ctests/sprofile.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* 
+/*
 * File:    sprofile.c
 * Author:  Philip Mucci
 *          mucci@cs.utk.edu
@@ -10,10 +10,15 @@
 
 /* These architectures use Function Descriptors as Function Pointers */
 
-#if (defined(linux) && defined(__ia64__)) || (defined(_AIX)) ||(defined(__powerpc64__))
+#if (defined(linux) && defined(__ia64__)) || (defined(_AIX)) \
+  || ((defined(__powerpc64__) && (_CALL_ELF != 2)))
+/* PPC64 Big Endian is ELF version 1 which uses function descriptors */
 #define DO_READS (unsigned long)(*(void **)do_reads)
 #define DO_FLOPS (unsigned long)(*(void **)do_flops)
 #else
+/* PPC64 Little Endian is ELF version 2 which does not use
+ * function descriptors
+ */
 #define DO_READS (unsigned long)(do_reads)
 #define DO_FLOPS (unsigned long)(do_flops)
 #endif