Re: [Valgrind-users] it works great!!!

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

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Tom Hughes wrote:

> > I'm wondering is there any way to get profile information in terms
> > of function  percentage usage rather then CPU instructions (like
> > quantify/purify)?
>
> Do you mean coverage information? ie how many times each function or
> line is executed. If you do, then the answer is not at the moment
> although I guess you could write a skin to do that.

Cachegrind's "Ir" count gives instructions executed per line.  This is
pretty similar to line-execution counts;  it's just that sometimes a line
gets compiled into more than one instruction.  But it's enough for basic
line-by-line coverage information.  You won't get percentage counts,
however.

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