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From: brownrigg@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: profiling with cc/gcc ...
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Date: 4 Jan 91 03:33:28 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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(pardon me if I'm wasting bandwidth on old hat topics - I vaguely recall
seeing something along these lines months back)

Is there something I should know about the native C compiler's profiling?
It seems if I use "-p" to compile a medium sized program that uses lots of
memory I get flakey behavior, usually resulting in an abort of the program.
One time, the whole system came down hard with a double panic, spewing its
dying messages all over the desktop.

On a related note, I've tried using the "-p" switch with "gcc", but at link
time, it complains about a missing library (lib_p.a" I think).  I have no
idea where to proceed from here on this one....help anybody?!

Rick Brownrigg
Kansas Geological Survey