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| <h2 class="chapter">4 <code>gprof</code> Command Summary</h2> |
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| <p>After you have a profile data file <samp>gmon.out</samp>, you can run <code>gprof</code> |
| to interpret the information in it. The <code>gprof</code> program prints a |
| flat profile and a call graph on standard output. Typically you would |
| redirect the output of <code>gprof</code> into a file with ‘<samp>></samp>’. |
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| <p>You run <code>gprof</code> like this: |
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| <p>Here square-brackets indicate optional arguments. |
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| <p>If you omit the executable file name, the file <samp>a.out</samp> is used. If |
| you give no profile data file name, the file <samp>gmon.out</samp> is used. If |
| any file is not in the proper format, or if the profile data file does not |
| appear to belong to the executable file, an error message is printed. |
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| <p>You can give more than one profile data file by entering all their names |
| after the executable file name; then the statistics in all the data files |
| are summed together. |
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| <p>The order of these options does not matter. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Output-Options.html#Output-Options" accesskey="1">Output Options</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Controlling <code>gprof</code>’s output style |
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