gprof

1 
1 Profiling a Program: Where Does It Spend Its Time?
1 **************************************************
1 
1 This manual describes the GNU profiler, 'gprof', and how you can use it
1 to determine which parts of a program are taking most of the execution
1 time.  We assume that you know how to write, compile, and execute
1 programs.  GNU 'gprof' was written by Jay Fenlason.
1 
1    This manual is for 'gprof' (GNU Binutils) version 2.30.
1 
1    This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free
1 Documentation License version 1.3.  A copy of the license is included in
1 the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
1 

Menu

1 
· Introduction        What profiling means, and why it is useful.
1 
· Compiling           How to compile your program for profiling.
· Executing           Executing your program to generate profile data
· Invoking            How to run 'gprof', and its options
1 
· Output              Interpreting 'gprof''s output
1 
· Inaccuracy          Potential problems you should be aware of
· How do I?           Answers to common questions
· Incompatibilities   (between GNU 'gprof' and Unix 'gprof'.)
· Details             Details of how profiling is done
· GNU Free Documentation License  GNU Free Documentation License
1