Basic block profiling info for gprof

Ben Elliston bje@au1.ibm.com
Thu Jun 28 05:35:00 GMT 2007


Hi Nick

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:03 +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:

> > How about the attached patch as a rewrite of the gprof documentation to 
> > refer readers to the gcov tool for basic block profiling ?
> 
> Well I have not heard any complaints, so I am going to check the patch 
> in along with this ChangeLog entry.

Given that the line-by-line option has never worked very well, would it
be worth removing it from gprof rather than try to fix it?

Cheers, Ben




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