Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:59:55 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Aleksi Kallio cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Profiler and Help for DJGPP In-Reply-To: <32a320b7.956848@news.eunet.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Aleksi Kallio wrote: > Is there a profiler for DJGPP? Yes. Please read Chapter 13 of the DJGPP FAQ list (available as v2/faq202b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP) which deals with this issue. > Can it be used with RHIDE? You are probably thinking about an interactive profiler such as the one that comes with Borland C. The DJGPP profiler is quite different: you compile and link your program with special switch to gcc, then just run your program. The program (when compiled with this special switch) gathers profiling information at runtime, then writes it to a disk file when it exits. A special program called `gprof' will then read that file with a profiling information and produce a human-readable text file which describes the execution profile. IMHO, interactive profiles are no use since they slow down your program to a crawl. > Is there any other Help-system than TexInfo (or something like that) > for DJGPP? No. Most of DJGPP development tools are ported GNU packages, and Texinfo is the standard documentation format for GNU. Since nobody is crazy enough to rewrite the Texinfo docs in any other format, here you are. If you *really* hate Texinfo (but please wait at least until it works for you before you decide), there is a Texinfo-to-HTML converter which will produce a set of HTML files which you can then browse with your favorite Web browser. You will lose the indices at the end of the Info files after this conversion, though, which IMHO is quite a big loss. > If there isn't, I'm going to miss Borland's Help... If you didn't yet succeed in using Info, how do you know already that it isn't as good (or better) than Borland's Help?