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.IX Title "GPROF 1"
-.TH GPROF 1 "2007-08-06" "binutils-2.17.90" "GNU"
+.TH GPROF 1 "2009-10-16" "binutils-2.20" "GNU"
+.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
+.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
+.if n .ad l
+.nh
.SH "NAME"
gprof \- display call graph profile data
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
[ \-\-static\-call\-graph ] [ \-\-sum ] [ \-\-table\-length=\fIlen\fR ]
[ \-\-traditional ] [ \-\-version ] [ \-\-width=\fIn\fR ]
[ \-\-ignore\-non\-functions ] [ \-\-demangle[=\fI\s-1STYLE\s0\fR] ]
- [ \-\-no\-demangle ] [ \fIimage-file\fR ] [ \fIprofile-file\fR ... ]
+ [ \-\-no\-demangle ] [\-\-external\-symbol\-table=name]
+ [ \fIimage-file\fR ] [ \fIprofile-file\fR ... ]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
\&\f(CW\*(C`gprof\*(C'\fR produces an execution profile of C, Pascal, or Fortran77
other functions it called, and how many times. There is also an estimate
of how much time was spent in the subroutines of each function. This can
suggest places where you might try to eliminate function calls that use a
-lot of time.
+lot of time.
.PP
The \fIannotated source\fR listing is a copy of the program's
source code, labeled with the number of times each line of the
-program was executed.
+program was executed.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
These options specify which of several output formats
Many of these options take an optional \fIsymspec\fR to specify
functions to be included or excluded. These options can be
specified multiple times, with different symspecs, to include
-or exclude sets of symbols.
+or exclude sets of symbols.
.PP
Specifying any of these options overrides the default (\fB\-p \-q\fR),
which prints a flat profile and call graph analysis
.PD
This option affects annotated source output only.
Normally, \f(CW\*(C`gprof\*(C'\fR prints annotated source files
-to standard\-output. If this option is specified,
+to standard-output. If this option is specified,
annotated source for a file named \fIpath/\fIfilename\fI\fR
is generated in the file \fI\fIfilename\fI\-ann\fR. If the underlying
file system would truncate \fI\fIfilename\fI\-ann\fR so that it
.PD
The \fB\-n\fR option causes \f(CW\*(C`gprof\*(C'\fR, in its call graph analysis,
not to propagate times for symbols matching \fIsymspec\fR.
+.ie n .IP """\-S\f(CIfilename\f(CW""" 4
+.el .IP "\f(CW\-S\f(CIfilename\f(CW\fR" 4
+.IX Item "-Sfilename"
+.PD 0
+.ie n .IP """\-\-external\-symbol\-table=\f(CIfilename\f(CW""" 4
+.el .IP "\f(CW\-\-external\-symbol\-table=\f(CIfilename\f(CW\fR" 4
+.IX Item "--external-symbol-table=filename"
+.PD
+The \fB\-S\fR option causes \f(CW\*(C`gprof\*(C'\fR to read an external symbol table
+file, such as \fI/proc/kallsyms\fR, rather than read the symbol table
+from the given object file (the default is \f(CW\*(C`a.out\*(C'\fR). This is useful
+for profiling kernel modules.
.ie n .IP """\-z""" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW\-z\fR" 4
.IX Item "-z"
.IX Subsection "Deprecated Options"
.RS 4
These options have been replaced with newer versions that use symspecs.
-.RE
-.ie n .IP """\-e \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW""" 4
-.el .IP "\f(CW\-e \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-e function_name"
+.Sp
+\&\f(CW\*(C`\-e \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW\*(C'\fR
+.Sp
The \fB\-e\fR \fIfunction\fR option tells \f(CW\*(C`gprof\*(C'\fR to not print
information about the function \fIfunction_name\fR (and its
children...) in the call graph. The function will still be listed
as a child of any functions that call it, but its index number will be
shown as \fB[not printed]\fR. More than one \fB\-e\fR option may be
given; only one \fIfunction_name\fR may be indicated with each \fB\-e\fR
-option.
-.ie n .IP """\-E \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW""" 4
-.el .IP "\f(CW\-E \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-E function_name"
+option.
+.Sp
+\&\f(CW\*(C`\-E \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW\*(C'\fR
+.Sp
The \f(CW\*(C`\-E \f(CIfunction\f(CW\*(C'\fR option works like the \f(CW\*(C`\-e\*(C'\fR option, but
time spent in the function (and children who were not called from
anywhere else), will not be used to compute the percentages-of-time for
the call graph. More than one \fB\-E\fR option may be given; only one
\&\fIfunction_name\fR may be indicated with each \fB\-E\fR option.
-.ie n .IP """\-f \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW""" 4
-.el .IP "\f(CW\-f \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-f function_name"
+.Sp
+\&\f(CW\*(C`\-f \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW\*(C'\fR
+.Sp
The \fB\-f\fR \fIfunction\fR option causes \f(CW\*(C`gprof\*(C'\fR to limit the
call graph to the function \fIfunction_name\fR and its children (and
their children...). More than one \fB\-f\fR option may be given;
only one \fIfunction_name\fR may be indicated with each \fB\-f\fR
-option.
-.ie n .IP """\-F \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW""" 4
-.el .IP "\f(CW\-F \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-F function_name"
+option.
+.Sp
+\&\f(CW\*(C`\-F \f(CIfunction_name\f(CW\*(C'\fR
+.Sp
The \fB\-F\fR \fIfunction\fR option works like the \f(CW\*(C`\-f\*(C'\fR option, but
only time spent in the function and its children (and their
children...) will be used to determine total-time and
percentages-of-time for the call graph. More than one \fB\-F\fR option
may be given; only one \fIfunction_name\fR may be indicated with each
\&\fB\-F\fR option. The \fB\-F\fR option overrides the \fB\-E\fR option.
+.RE
.SH "FILES"
.IX Header "FILES"
.ie n .IP """\f(CIa.out\f(CW""" 4
.ie n .IP """\f(CIgmon.sum\f(CW""" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW\f(CIgmon.sum\f(CW\fR" 4
.IX Item "gmon.sum"
-summarized dynamic call graph and profile.
+summarized dynamic call graph and profile.
.SH "BUGS"
.IX Header "BUGS"
The granularity of the sampling is shown, but remains
\&\s-1SIGPLAN\s0 Notices, Vol. 17, No 6, pp. 120\-126, June 1982.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
-Copyright (c) 1988, 92, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 1988, 92, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the \s-1GNU\s0 Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
+under the terms of the \s-1GNU\s0 Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no
Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
section entitled \*(L"\s-1GNU\s0 Free Documentation License\*(R".
+.SH "POD ERRORS"
+.IX Header "POD ERRORS"
+Hey! \fBThe above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:\fR
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