Questio on Gprof

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 20 16:27:58 UTC 2007


On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:34:39PM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> mk> What I want to know is that, is there an implementation of gprof
> or any other
> mk> profiler for bsd or any unixes which relies on instrumentation
> only by inserting
> mk> probes at the header and footer of the function ?
> 
> The Paradyn project offers an API for a few Unix-like OSes which
> could be used for performance related instrumentation: see www.dyninst.org.

If there is someone with both time and interest in working on this, I've
got a friend on the project if that would be useful.

-- Brooks
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