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| author | Ben Asselstine <benasselstine@gmail.com> | 2021-06-03 21:25:15 +0930 |
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| committer | Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> | 2021-06-03 21:26:33 +0930 |
| commit | bbd47c1230b3fbc25e6292ea3f2f5d275d4d459a (patch) | |
| tree | 5a953db079d0418465433394d6a19ec61a795a8c /gprof | |
| parent | 364d77297723712a2952072fd6768601f17070bd (diff) | |
| download | binutils-gdb-bbd47c1230b3fbc25e6292ea3f2f5d275d4d459a.tar.gz | |
PR4283, update gprof manual with note about GMON_OUT_PREFIX
PR 4283
* gprof.texi (Executing): Note GMON_OUT_PREFIX environment variable.
Diffstat (limited to 'gprof')
| -rw-r--r-- | gprof/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gprof/gprof.texi | 8 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gprof/ChangeLog b/gprof/ChangeLog index 24deb11f95b..6d73b3cc8c9 100644 --- a/gprof/ChangeLog +++ b/gprof/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2021-06-03 Ben Asselstine <benasselstine@gmail.com> + + PR 4283 + * gprof.texi (Executing): Note GMON_OUT_PREFIX environment variable. + 2021-05-08 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> * Makefile.am (html-local, doc/gprof/index.html): New targets. diff --git a/gprof/gprof.texi b/gprof/gprof.texi index b2b204822d8..5085159bc70 100644 --- a/gprof/gprof.texi +++ b/gprof/gprof.texi @@ -381,9 +381,11 @@ initialization and in cleanup, but not much else. Your program will write the profile data into a file called @file{gmon.out} just before exiting. If there is already a file called @file{gmon.out}, -its contents are overwritten. There is currently no way to tell the -program to write the profile data under a different name, but you can rename -the file afterwards if you are concerned that it may be overwritten. +its contents are overwritten. You can rename the file afterwards if you +are concerned that it may be overwritten. If your system libc allows you +may be able to write the profile data under a different name. Set the +GMON_OUT_PREFIX environment variable; this name will be appended with +the PID of the running program. In order to write the @file{gmon.out} file properly, your program must exit normally: by returning from @code{main} or by calling @code{exit}. Calling |