Re: gprof with gnat

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote in message news:<5ee5b646.0205010430.4899201e@posting.google.com>...
> dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote in message news:<4519e058.0204300558.49ff7b08@posting.google.com>...
> > "Charles Fr. Rey" <charlesfr.rey@epfl.ch> wrote in message news:<3CCE6DF1.46B5450E@epfl.ch>...
> > > Is Ada so performant that it doesn't need to be profiled ? ;-)
> > 
> > Not really.
> > 
> > I attempted to use it on Windows about a year ago, with rather rotten
> > luck. Most of the problems stem from the fact that Gnat doesn't use
> > the latest gcc, and thus you can't use the latest gprof. Hopefully
> > this problem will go away with gcc 3.1.
> 
> Be careful in reading posts on this group. The fact that Ted cannot
> manage on his own to get something working does not mean that it does
> not work :-), and the analysis in the second sentence is bogus and
> incorrect.

I agree with the first half of this entirely. There are certianly
loads of people out there who know way more than me about building and
using gcc tools. The second part was certianly not true at the time.
If something was done to gcc 3 to  make non-EGCS executables work with
EGCS gprof executables, then I guess its not an issue any more. But a
year ago the EGCS gprof would *not* work with my gnat-built exes on
Windows. I found (after much searching) a non-EGCS gprof, and that
worked much better (but still not perfectly).


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