Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!jack
From: jack@cca.CCA.COM (Jack Orenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Program profile
Message-ID: <28292@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 18 May 88 15:46:28 GMT
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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Has anyone had experience in profiling C programs on the Amiga? The
ideal tool would be something like the Sun C profiler which provides a
breakdown on each function, indicating who called what how often, how
much time per call, etc. Since this is not available, the only option
seems to be to insert calls to timers. The one function described in the
Intuition manual returns seconds and microseconds, but this function is
supposed to be inaccurate, (and it causes my system to guru).

Does anyone know of any other tools or timer functions that would be of
use?

A Sun-style profiling tool is my candidate for the Next Great Thing
after SDB (which I love).


Jack Orenstein