Re: [Valgrind-developers] Profiling Valgrind's Core

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Konstantin Serebryany wrote:

> gprof and many other similar tools require to link something into the
> profiled application.
> valgrind won't allow it.
> tools like Intel PTU (vtssrun) intrude into application's address space.
> valgrind won't allow it.
>
> when using oprofile on x86_64 make sure to build valgrind with
> -fno-omit-framepointer, otherwise you won't get the callgraph.

And if you want to use Cachegrind/Callgrind, look at "Self-hosting" in 
README_DEVELOPERS.

Nick