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Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:05:17 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Boily <boily AT DMS DOT UMontreal DOT CA>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: gprof -e and -E options don't work
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Message-ID:	<Pine.GSO.3.96.990203080213.2413B-100000@leonard.DMS.UMontreal.CA>
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, David Boily wrote:
> 
> > I can't seem to make the -e and -E otions of gprof to work.
> > 
> > I've tried with many functions by they still show up in the 
> > profile, aamof the profile is identical to the one generated
> > w/o -e or -E.
> 
> If the program you are profiling was built with DJGPP v2.02, then please 
> note that there's a bug in profiling code in libc.a, which causes gprof 
> to produce bogus results, no matter what switches do you use.
> 
> If your libc.a is not from v2.02, please post examples of profiles with 
> and without the switches you mention.
> 

I patched my libc.a w/ the patch you sent to some people. It fixed the
bug where the first function took 100% of the time but the switches 
mentioned above still won't work. As for the profile, it now makes sense.
The profiles w/ and w/o the switches are identical.

Thank you
David

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