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Re: Basic block profiling (-a) does produce wrong code for insn prologues
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 08:56:59PM -0500, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> > > Or, are you proposing to depreciate '-a' and instead move to using
> > > '-fprofile-arcs'
> >
> > Yes.
> Hmm, this rings the bell, I wanted to do that for a while.
> Would be OK if I just prepare patch to remove the -a?
Hmm, while preparing the patch I noticed that, there is still feature missing.
-ax is able to record full trace of program (or should be if it worked).
Are we going to happilly give up this feature? We may I guess.
On the other hand for experimental purpose this is nice toy..
Honza
>
> Honza
> >
> > > and get gprof to understand that output format?
> >
> > No, gcov does just fine.
> >
> >
> > r~