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Re: dumping profiling info in gmon.out file format

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: "Mohamed Shafi" <shafitvm at gmail dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 15 May 2007 18:05:38 -0700
Subject: Re: dumping profiling info in gmon.out file format
References: <ba0bd44d0705150403i771e69e9m8cef690d7b663ef6@mail.gmail.com>

"Mohamed Shafi" <shafitvm@gmail.com> writes:

> gmon.out file is created in mcleanup function.This function however
> doesn't dump the data in the grof gmon.out data format. When i looked
> into the code for i386 and sparc in the backend nothing has been done
> to store the profiling info the required format. How is it that the
> file thus created is recognized by gprof? Or am i missing something?

Assuming you are referring to gcc/config/{i386,sparc}/gmon-sol2.c,
that code is only used on Solaris, not on other operating systems.
Are you using Solaris?

On GNU/Linux gmon.out is generated by code in glibc, not gcc.  The
glibc code is in gmon/gmon.c in the glibc sources.

Ian

References:
- dumping profiling info in gmon.out file format
  - From: Mohamed Shafi

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