Re: gprof with gnat

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

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.

In fact gprof works with GNAT on Windows on GCC 2
and we have several of our customers successfully using it.
Preliminary tests on GCC 3 seem to show that the behavior
is the same, but since we do not have a GCC 3 based product
yet, we do not have customers using gprof on GCC 3.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies