1<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2<html> 3<!-- This file documents the gprof profiler of the GNU system. 4 5Copyright (C) 1988-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 6 7Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document 8under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 9or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 10with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no 11Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the 12section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". 13 --> 14<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 5.1, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> 15<head> 16<title>GNU gprof: Details</title> 17 18<meta name="description" content="GNU gprof: Details"> 19<meta name="keywords" content="GNU gprof: Details"> 20<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> 21<meta name="distribution" content="global"> 22<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> 23<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 24<link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> 25<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> 26<link href="index.html#Top" rel="up" title="Top"> 27<link href="Implementation.html#Implementation" rel="next" title="Implementation"> 28<link href="Incompatibilities.html#Incompatibilities" rel="previous" title="Incompatibilities"> 29<style type="text/css"> 30<!-- 31a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} 32blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} 33div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} 34div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} 35div.indentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em} 36div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} 37div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} 38div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} 39div.smallindentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em; font-size: smaller} 40div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} 41kbd {font-style:oblique} 42pre.display {font-family: inherit} 43pre.format {font-family: inherit} 44pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} 45pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} 46pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} 47pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} 48pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} 49pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} 50span.nocodebreak {white-space:nowrap} 51span.nolinebreak {white-space:nowrap} 52span.roman {font-family:serif; font-weight:normal} 53span.sansserif {font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal} 54ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} 55--> 56</style> 57 58 59</head> 60 61<body lang="en" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000"> 62<a name="Details"></a> 63<div class="header"> 64<p> 65Next: <a href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html#GNU-Free-Documentation-License" accesskey="n" rel="next">GNU Free Documentation License</a>, Previous: <a href="Incompatibilities.html#Incompatibilities" accesskey="p" rel="previous">Incompatibilities</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>]</p> 66</div> 67<hr> 68<a name="Details-of-Profiling"></a> 69<h2 class="chapter">9 Details of Profiling</h2> 70 71<table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> 72<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Implementation.html#Implementation" accesskey="1">Implementation</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How a program collects profiling information 73</td></tr> 74<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="File-Format.html#File-Format" accesskey="2">File Format</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Format of ‘<samp>gmon.out</samp>’ files 75</td></tr> 76<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Internals.html#Internals" accesskey="3">Internals</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"><code>gprof</code>’s internal operation 77</td></tr> 78<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Debugging.html#Debugging" accesskey="4">Debugging</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Using <code>gprof</code>’s ‘<samp>-d</samp>’ option 79</td></tr> 80</table> 81 82 83 84 85</body> 86</html> 87