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Re: About gprof tool
- From: Fabian Scheler <Fabian dot Scheler at gmx dot de>
- To: Sriranga S <srirangas at myw dot ltindia dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:59:10 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] About gprof tool
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Hi
> Whta s this"gprof" tool?
gprof is a tool to visualize profiling information. By the option '-gp' you can
tell gcc to generate special machine code the contains instructions to gather
such profiling information during program execution. In other words:
With the help of this tool you can check where your program spents how much time.
> Where can I find more information about this tool? Is it freely downloadable? Can anyone give me some info on this.
It should be part of the GNU Binutils.
Ciao, Fabian
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