who the hell said anything about memory? I also wasn't asking anything about what profiling does, I know damn well what it does, I want to know how to get the damn gprof working.
mutter mutter.. damn think-they-know-it-alls -mend ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin Groothuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mendanbar Silverleaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:26 AM Subject: Re: gprof > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:02:04AM -0600, Mendanbar Silverleaf wrote: > > me again.... this profiling stuff really burns my ass. > > Profiling means finding out which parts are using most of the CPU. > It has nothing to do with memory-leaks etc. > > If you want to trace memory-leaks, you have to keep track of memory > being allocated and de-allocated. So put printf() statements in > alloc_perm(), alloc_mem() and free_mem() and start recording the > amount of memory. Since you have a 'huge leak of something', which > isn't a very helpfull description so I cannot give the most optimal > answer, I assume it's reproducable on demand. In that case, find > out why it is allocating memory there without de-allocating it > later on. > > Oh, and thank you for answering to the mailing-list instead of to > me alone. > > Edwin > > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: > ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ >
