curious gprof behaviour on trivial testcase
Ben Elliston
bje@au1.ibm.com
Tue May 2 00:33:00 GMT 2006
Hi Jim
> The problem here is that a trivial testcase has only one function,
> and hence no call graph info. However, gprof by default assumes you
> want to emit call graph info, and if there is none, it gives an
> error.
Thanks for fixing this -- it caught me recently and I didn't get a
chance to go back and try to fix it myself.
More to the point, the error message you get from gprof is utterly
unhelpful. When I encountered it, I immediately suspected corruption
in the gmon.out file or operator error. It had me scratching my head
for a bit!
Cheers, Ben
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