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| <h1 class="settitle" align="center">GNU gprof</h1> |
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| <li><a name="toc-Introduction-to-Profiling" href="Introduction.html#Introduction">1 Introduction to Profiling</a></li> |
| <li><a name="toc-Compiling-a-Program-for-Profiling" href="Compiling.html#Compiling">2 Compiling a Program for Profiling</a></li> |
| <li><a name="toc-Executing-the-Program" href="Executing.html#Executing">3 Executing the Program</a></li> |
| <li><a name="toc-gprof-Command-Summary" href="Invoking.html#Invoking">4 <code>gprof</code> Command Summary</a> |
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| <li><a name="toc-Output-Options-1" href="Output-Options.html#Output-Options">4.1 Output Options</a></li> |
| <li><a name="toc-Analysis-Options-1" href="Analysis-Options.html#Analysis-Options">4.2 Analysis Options</a></li> |
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| <li><a name="toc-The-Flat-Profile" href="Flat-Profile.html#Flat-Profile">5.1 The Flat Profile</a></li> |
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| <li><a name="toc-Line_002dby_002dline-Profiling" href="Line_002dby_002dline.html#Line_002dby_002dline">5.3 Line-by-line Profiling</a></li> |
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| <li><a name="toc-Inaccuracy-of-gprof-Output" href="Inaccuracy.html#Inaccuracy">6 Inaccuracy of <code>gprof</code> Output</a> |
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| <li><a name="toc-Statistical-Sampling-Error" href="Sampling-Error.html#Sampling-Error">6.1 Statistical Sampling Error</a></li> |
| <li><a name="toc-Estimating-children-Times" href="Assumptions.html#Assumptions">6.2 Estimating <code>children</code> Times</a></li> |
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| <li><a name="toc-Incompatibilities-with-Unix-gprof" href="Incompatibilities.html#Incompatibilities">8 Incompatibilities with Unix <code>gprof</code></a></li> |
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| <li><a name="toc-gprof_0027s-Internal-Operation" href="Internals.html#Internals">9.3 <code>gprof</code>’s Internal Operation</a></li> |
| <li><a name="toc-Debugging-gprof" href="Debugging.html#Debugging">9.4 Debugging <code>gprof</code></a></li> |
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| <li><a name="toc-GNU-Free-Documentation-License-1" href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html#GNU-Free-Documentation-License">Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License</a></li> |
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| <h1 class="top">Profiling a Program: Where Does It Spend Its Time?</h1> |
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| <p>This manual describes the <small>GNU</small> profiler, <code>gprof</code>, and how you |
| can use it to determine which parts of a program are taking most of the |
| execution time. We assume that you know how to write, compile, and |
| execute programs. <small>GNU</small> <code>gprof</code> was written by Jay Fenlason. |
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| <p>This manual is for <code>gprof</code> |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Introduction.html#Introduction" accesskey="1">Introduction</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">What profiling means, and why it is useful. |
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| </pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Compiling.html#Compiling" accesskey="2">Compiling</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How to compile your program for profiling. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Executing.html#Executing" accesskey="3">Executing</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Executing your program to generate profile data |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Invoking.html#Invoking" accesskey="4">Invoking</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How to run <code>gprof</code>, and its options |
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| </pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Output.html#Output" accesskey="5">Output</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Interpreting <code>gprof</code>’s output |
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| </pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inaccuracy.html#Inaccuracy" accesskey="6">Inaccuracy</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Potential problems you should be aware of |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="How-do-I_003f.html#How-do-I_003f" accesskey="7">How do I?</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Answers to common questions |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Incompatibilities.html#Incompatibilities" accesskey="8">Incompatibilities</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">(between <small>GNU</small> <code>gprof</code> and Unix <code>gprof</code>.) |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Details.html#Details" accesskey="9">Details</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Details of how profiling is done |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html#GNU-Free-Documentation-License">GNU Free Documentation License</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">GNU Free Documentation License |
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