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Re: Gprof can account for less than 1/3 of execution time?!?!
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> writes:
> gprof generally does not have any support for shared libraries. It
> will ignore profiling samples that lie outside the executable. And in
> this case, that includes _mcount (which is in libc.so.6). That's
> probably why.
Even when statically linked, gprof will always ignore the time spent in
the _mcount (or equivalent) function.
Andreas.
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