From: "Alberto Chessa" <achessa AT fiar DOT finmeccanica DOT it>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Profiling, how?
Date: 18 May 1998 07:26:24 GMT
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Inkel AT sion DOT com wrote in article <0667c3714041258PROXY AT sion DOT net>...
> Hi everybody
>    Could somebody explain me how can I do to profile a program? (yeah, I
> know, with the -pg command line switch). My exactly question is:
> 
> * I write a program,
> * Compile it with the -pg option,
> * I run the program,
> * Then, how, when, why?
> 

The programm execution should produce a gmon.out file. Use command "gprof"
to examine the results (note that gprof required a.out - exec "gprof -h"
for more info).