Re: [Valgrind-developers] How to profile valgrind itself?

[Bart V. A. <bar...@gm...>]

On 3/1/07, xiaoming gu <xia...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi, all. I write a new tool based on valgrind and want to test itself, but
>   when I did the profiling there was an error message:
>        valgrind: You cannot run './valgrind' directly.
>        valgrind: You should use $prefix/bin/valgrind.
> Then I specified the profiled valgrind using full path and it didn't work.
>
> Does anybody do something like this before? Please give me some
> details. Thanks a lot.

Have a look at the README_DEVELOPERS document in the source
distribution -- this document explains how to profile a valgrind tool
with cachegrind or callgrind.

Regards,

Bart Van Assche.