Re: gprof with gnat

["Charles Fr. Rey" <charlesfr.rey@epfl.ch>]

gnatmake -g profile etc... it seems that's the missing thing ..  I was
used to use it on solaris, and you MUST add -largs path/gprof.o, no more
...

Thanks, next time i'll read the whole documentation !



"Bobby D. Bryant" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 04:40:40 -0600, Charles Fr. Rey wrote:
> 
> > Anyone knows how to use gprof with gnat (linux version) ? I was able
> > to use it on solaris, but not on my home computer ...
> 
> I'm not very expert with gprof, but I tried it last fall and didn't
> seem to have any problems.  I use Linux and GNAT.
> 
> Here are some notes I made at the time:
> 
>  o Comments in the source file for a jacket program, profile.adb, that
>    I wrote to drive a GA "solver" for the profiling -
> 
> -- This is useful for testing for memory leaks in the solver:
> --    gnatmake profile
> --    gnatmem 5 ./profile
> --
> -- Also useful for optimizing the solver:
> --    make profile
> --    ./profile
> --    gcov profile.adb
> --    emacs profile.adb.gcov
> --    n.b. -- you can also run gcov on files that profile.adb depends on.
> 
>  o A snippet from my Makefile -
> 
> # For use w/ the gcov profiler:
> profile: realclean
>         gnatmake -g profile                   \
>         -cargs -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage \
>         -bargs -C -largs -C
> 
> Hopefully that will be enough to get you started.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Bobby Bryant
> Austi, Texas