gprof issue on XSCALE

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:32:02AM -0800, Lin George wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I want to use gprof to monitor performance of a program on an XSCALE
> CPU system, currently I am using Monta Vista tool chain to build
> application for the XSCALE system. But I can not find a gprof tool
> shipped with Monta Vista Linux. Does anyone have any idea of how to
> use gprof in my environment -- could work with Monta Vista Linux tool
> chain for XSCALE?

You should ask them, not us.  I thought they shipped gprof.  Anyway,
we can't help you much with vendors' tools.

> The more specific issue I could see is, I could compile and execute
> with profiler enabled application (-pg option), but there is no tool
> to analyze the output report in Monta Vista Linux (I can not find
> gprof command in Monta Vista installation package, and I am using
> version 3.1). -- I think I could not use x86 Linux desktop gprof to
> analyze the ouput generated by Monta Vista XSCALE compiler -- since I
> think gprof has to be matched with platform (XSCALE?). Any ideas?

No, any recent version of gprof should work fine.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery