Re: profiling howto/info

[Erik <br0ke@math.smsu.edu>]

On 27-Aug-99 Damian Gryski wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 01:45:42PM +0200, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
>> Erik <br0ke@math.smsu.edu> writes:
>> 
>> > Is there a good article/tutorial/howto to read up on profiling? I've seen
>> > profiling macros used in code before, but I'm not clear on the
>> > implementation.
>> 
>> What about:
>> 
>> $ info gprof

Exactly what I needed to know :) thanks

> 
>    For profiling, I have lcc installed.  lcc is the free
> compiler from princeton (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/lcc) that's
> used in the gaming mod community a lot.  Anyways, lcc's
> profile prints line usage counts, which I don't think gprof can.
> (If I'm wrong, *please* somebody tell me..)
> 

reading the gprof info page, it says it can do line by line, if the debugging
info (-g) is also included.

>    Of course, the other advantage of using lcc for profiling
> is forcing me to make sure that it compiles cleanly under both
> gcc and lcc.  Since they both complain about slightly different
> things (lcc spits out somethings gcc -Wall doesn't),  I use
> lcc before I use lint (which I must also stress is a very
> important development tool)
> 
>    Damian
> 
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thanks for the responses, I was sitting here thinking ya need to find some
special library and learn some new api to do it, I guess I can be pretty
ignorant at times :) I saw profiling stuff in xracers source and I guess I
jumped to a conclusion? Ah well, I think I'm well on my way now :) Thanks

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