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Re: gprof/sprof and shared libraries...again
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:00:40AM -0500, Braman, Paul wrote:
>
>>
>> This discussion seems to creep up from time to time but I haven't seen
>> anyone post positive results (that I can replicate).
>>
>> Our RedHat installation here at work is a slightly modified 7.2 (we have a
>> RedHat contractor on-site who's coordinating our setup). I can't seem to
>> get a profile for a shared library the way I think I should.
>>
>> First off, what I expect as output from my work is not a profile of the
>> calls *in* the library, but a profile of the calls *to* the library. (The
>> linker knows what calls are being made to the library and should be able to
>> put timing information around those calls.)
>>
>
>
> Then, you need to compile your work with -g.
I suspect you ment -pg :-)
>> I've got a small library with one function, libprof.so. I've got a small
>> main that calls an internal function once and a function from the library
>> once. I can get a profile for the call to the internal function just fine,
>> but nothing I've done has generated information for a call to the function
>> in the library.
>>
>> Commands I am running...
>>
>> export LD_PROFILE=libprof.so
>> export LD_PROFILE_OUTPUT=/home/user/proftest
>> g++ -g -fPIC -c -o prof.lo prof.cpp
>> g++ --shared -o libprof.so prof.lo
>> g++ -g -pg -I/home/user/proftest -c -o ptest.o ptest.cpp
>> g++ -pg -o ptest ptest.o -L/home/user/proftest -lprof \
>> -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /home/user/proftest
>> /home/user/ptest
>>
>
>
> It profiles libprof.so. That is the calls made from libprof.so.
Well, the functions within libprof.so.
Compiling a file with -pg modifies all functions it contains to record
both itself and its _caller_ as a pair. Hence to count the number of
calls to libprof:foo() you need to have compiled foo() with -pg.
Profiling the callers won't help.
enjoy,
Andrew