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From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Prof doesn't work on large programs
Message-ID: <1470@greek.csd.mot.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 22:26:06 GMT
Organization: Motorola CSD, Cupertino CA
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The prof program works fine on small programs, but blows up on large programs.
This is not the fault of prof, but is caused by the plate-of-shrimp malloc
library.  Realloc() misbehaves, and so a list small enough not cause a
realloc() works.  I've only spotted this on 386 UNIX from AT&T.

If you want to prof a big program, you're stuck with using GNU in robitussin
mode.