gprof

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Performance analysis tool for many programming languages. It profiles the function executions of a program.

Options (3)

-pboolean

Compile binary to default `a.out` with gprof information and run it to get `gmon.out`

Example: gcc {{[-p|-pg]}} {{program.c}} && ./a.out

-b, --briefboolean

Suppress profile field's description

Example: gprof {{[-b|--brief]}}

boolean

Display routines that have zero usage

Example: gprof {{[-bz|--brief --display-unused-functions]}}

Compile binary to default `a.out` with gprof information and run it to get `gmon.out`

gcc [-p|-pg] program.c && ./a.out

Run gprof on default `a.out` and `gmon.out` to obtain profile output

gprof

Run gprof on a named binary

gprof path/to/binary path/to/gmon.out

Suppress profile field's description

gprof [-b|--brief]

Display routines that have zero usage

gprof [-bz|--brief --display-unused-functions]