From:	ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	gprof doesn't work!
Date:	1 Mar 1997 04:49:40 GMT
Organization:	The National Capital FreeNet
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Reply-To:	ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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I wanted to profile a chunk of code. So, in RHIDE I set the Link for
Profiling option on, and I set the compiler debugging options "-pg" flag
on, and I recompiled the file with the area to profile and linked and ran
it. It created a file named gmon.out. Then I launched a dos shell, and
entered gprof gmon.out, and it said:

c:/djgpp/bin/gprof.exe: gmon.out: not in a.out format


So, obviously wither a bug in djgpp causes it to output the profiling data
in the wrong format, or a bug in RHIDE causes the profiling options not to
work correctly, or else a bug in gprof causes it not to recognise the
format, or not to be able to understand all the right formats.

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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh

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