Re: [Mingw-users] gprof on winxp

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:
> 
> I have for the first time used gprof and it is great. However, I cannot
> make it run with the -l or -C options. It dies. Does any of you have
> experiences like this with gprof?

I just tried those options with a program I had built with '-pg'.
'-C main' reports
  main: No such file or directory
which seems odd because that symspec doesn't contain a dot and
should be considered a function. And '-l' (lowercase ell) just
segfaults.

I get output that looks plausible if I use '-l' with the gprof
provided with MinGW gcc-2.95.2-1, even though the program was
built with the gcc-3.2.3 toolset--so it seems that a defect has
crept in over the past few years.

Try cygwin gprof: if that works no better, then it's not a
MinGW problem. Searching the appropriate gnu and cygwin mailing
lists and defect databases might turn up something. Best of all
would be to build gprof with MSYS and debug it if you can find
the time (I can't).