At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:42:57 +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > When profiling threads, gprof actually only profiles the main thread, > which is quite useless. The reason is that there is only one timer for > the profiling, and that belongs to the main thread. In the profiling > case, each thread needs its own timer. > > There are several solutions for this, such as a wrapper as on > http://sam.zoy.org/writings/programming/gprof.html > This, however, is unsatisfactory. Compiling with "-p" should > automatically generate code like that or link code like that; for > instance with a weak pthread_create symbol. Of course that requires > interaction with GCC, but the important change is in the C library.
Yes, it's long time concerned item, and not fixed. I didn't know why Uli did not want to accept this kind of issue. IMHO, we have a chance to investigate more when we support NPTL. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
