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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What is mcount?
Message-ID: <11443@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Oct 89 14:23:26 GMT
References: <2589@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2589@munnari.oz.au> shek@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Wilson SHEK) writes:
>	When a program is profiled and the results are shown using 
>prof, there is always a function named mcount somewhere in the table.
>What is mcount and where does it come from?

"mcount" is the part of the run-time support that tallies function
entry counts.  Just ignore it.