Re: samples merging

[John L. <le...@mo...>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:16:50PM +0100, Philippe Elie wrote:

> I try to figure out what we need for merging samples files
> 
>   - an utility to merge samples for the same binary and/or
>  the ability to merge directly from the command line of
>  oprofpp/op_to_source. I've just problem with the and/or
>  do we need the twice ?

Are you saying we create an "op_merge" which writes out a merged sample file ?
Then you can use oprofpp on that new file ? If this is simplest,
I don't see why not.

> $ op_time --[???]
> 
>   /bin/bash:fct1 33 3.4%
>   /bin/ls:fct1 18 ...
>   /bin/foo (no symbols) 16 ...
>   /bin/bash:fct2 12 ...

I think that's it, yes.

> Do we need to allow to see details for each symbols ?

for op_time ? no

regards
john

p.s. I'm not too fond of op_time as a name, op_total would be better

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