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Re: Basic block profiling info for gprof
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Mohamed Shafi <shafitvm at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:34:19 +1000
- Subject: Re: Basic block profiling info for gprof
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Hi Nick
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:03 +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > How about the attached patch as a rewrite of the gprof documentation to
> > refer readers to the gcov tool for basic block profiling ?
>
> Well I have not heard any complaints, so I am going to check the patch
> in along with this ChangeLog entry.
Given that the line-by-line option has never worked very well, would it
be worth removing it from gprof rather than try to fix it?
Cheers, Ben