Re: dumping profiling info in gmon.out file format

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dumping profiling info in gmon.out file format
\ Mohamed Shafi (15 May 2007)
. \ Ian Lance Taylor (16 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: dumping profiling info in gmon.out file format
Group:	Gcc
From:	Ian Lance Taylor
Date:	16 May 2007

"Mohamed Shafi" <shafitvm> 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