From: gpt20 AT thor DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (G.P. Tootell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: profiling under djgpp
Date: 20 Jan 1997 16:10:08 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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i just did man gprof under linux, having sworn i'd read the thing thru and not
found anything. and i couldn't find this section :( grep didn't find it either :(
maybe it's sunos specific? you're right of course, it's exactly what i want :)

nik

In article <9701201125 DOT AA08187 AT cambridge DOT scr DOT slb DOT com>, combee AT cambridge DOT scr DOT slb DOT com (Leendert Combee) writes:
|> > 
|> > Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
|> > : 
|> > : On 16 Jan 1997, G.P. Tootell wrote:
|> > : 
|> > : > i can remove them? also can i profile parts of a function, ie. to refine the
|> > : > profile and hence determine which part of the routine is slowest (eg. i know
|> > : > routine_a() takes up too much time, can i set a breakpoint here to split the
|> > : > routine in two? or do i have to split it into 2 separate routines before it will 
|> > : > profile this way?)
|> > : 
|> > : AFAIK, gprof only supports file-level granularity, i.e. you can compile 
|> > : some files with -pg and others without it.  I don't think you can profile 
|> > : parts of a function.
|> > : 
|> 
|> 
|>   From "man gprof" under SunOS/UNIX I quote:
|> 
|>      A single function may be split into subfunctions for profil-
|>      ing by means of the MARK macro (see prof(3)).
|>  
|> 
|>   Unfortunately, I don't know yet how to use this macro nor whether it is supported by
|>   gcc/djgpp. However, it seems to do what you want....
|> 
|>   

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