[ECOS] ARM profiling

[Jonathan Larmour]

milindk@marvell.com wrote:
> Hi,
>       I am trying to profile the code running on an ARM processor over
> eCos. I found out that a gprof package exists for Power PC. Has anyone done
> anything similar for ARM?

Not yet, but you can see what's required from the bottom of 
hal/powerpc/mpc8xx/current/src/var_misc.c i.e. just some routine to 
periodically call __profile_hit with the PC at time of interrupt, along 
with hal_enable_profile_timer(resolution) to install that routine.

Jifl
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