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Re: change the sampling time in the gprof

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
Cc: <perugupa at csee dot wvu dot edu>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:46:07 -0700
Subject: Re: change the sampling time in the gprof
References: <33848.157.182.195.254.1084202299.squirrel@www.csee.wvu.edu><40A41F0F.4080806@specifixinc.com><3864.157.182.194.141.1084903782.squirrel@www.csee.wvu.edu><m38yfpy467.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> On typical Unix systems, as well as on GNU/Linux, the precision of the
> gprof timer is determined by the behaviour of the profil() function.
> I don't know whether there is any way to adjust that on your
> particular system.

Linux (the kernel) does not implement profil().  glibc uses
setitimer() and SIGPROF for profiling.

zw

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