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Re: How to instrument a program using GCC
Thank you very much.
Haifeng
On Feb 19, 2008 5:29 AM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
> On 2/18/08 11:12 PM, Haifeng He wrote:
> > Thanks for replying. I searched online but could not find much information about
> > GCC tree-profiling. GCC Internal also does not explain much on that. Is there
> > any other document explains that subject? Or some kind of tutorial or small
> > example that demonstrates how to manipulate GIMPLE tree will be also very
> > helpful.
>
> If you just want GCC to instrument your program, then reading on how to
> use the -fprofile-* switches should be enough. Both are in the user
> manual that comes with GCC.
>
> If you want to know *how* these options work, that's different. A good
> starting point is the GCC wiki. In particular,
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted
>
>
> Diego.
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