Re: google gprof replacement got
From what I can see, all those are memory debugging tools, not really profiling tools - which is what I really need. For some reason, gprof (despite built-in compiler support) is just reporting the call stack of various functions dead wrong - and it's not a complicated case such as some function calling a system function that hasn't been compiled for profiling, it's mis-reporting one function as calling another directly when it quite clearly is doing no such thing.
I'll have to try a couple other systems (we've got an HPUX and an AIX system and can get access to a Linux system), but it's annoying when a (supposedly) "standard" Unix tool, supposedly supported by the vendor, doesn't work.
And, Ben, I can do things with macros if I must, but it's also annoying to have to hand-instrument code with printf's (or however I go about it) when I shouldn't have to.
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