gprof: Deprecated Options

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1 4.4 Deprecated Options
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1 These options have been replaced with newer versions that use symspecs.
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1 '-e FUNCTION_NAME'
1      The '-e FUNCTION' option tells 'gprof' to not print information
1      about the function FUNCTION_NAME (and its children...) in the call
1      graph.  The function will still be listed as a child of any
1      functions that call it, but its index number will be shown as '[not
1      printed]'.  More than one '-e' option may be given; only one
1      FUNCTION_NAME may be indicated with each '-e' option.
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1 '-E FUNCTION_NAME'
1      The '-E FUNCTION' option works like the '-e' option, but time spent
1      in the function (and children who were not called from anywhere
1      else), will not be used to compute the percentages-of-time for the
1      call graph.  More than one '-E' option may be given; only one
1      FUNCTION_NAME may be indicated with each '-E' option.
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1 '-f FUNCTION_NAME'
1      The '-f FUNCTION' option causes 'gprof' to limit the call graph to
1      the function FUNCTION_NAME and its children (and their
1      children...).  More than one '-f' option may be given; only one
1      FUNCTION_NAME may be indicated with each '-f' option.
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1 '-F FUNCTION_NAME'
1      The '-F FUNCTION' option works like the '-f' option, but only time
1      spent in the function and its children (and their children...) will
1      be used to determine total-time and percentages-of-time for the
1      call graph.  More than one '-F' option may be given; only one
1      FUNCTION_NAME may be indicated with each '-F' option.  The '-F'
1      option overrides the '-E' option.
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1    Note that only one function can be specified with each '-e', '-E',
1 '-f' or '-F' option.  To specify more than one function, use multiple
1 options.  For example, this command:
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1      gprof -e boring -f foo -f bar myprogram > gprof.output
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1 lists in the call graph all functions that were reached from either
1 'foo' or 'bar' and were not reachable from 'boring'.
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