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    oprofile!!!

    Hi,

    I need some help regarding oprofile in Linux. Will I be able to see how many times a function has been called and how much time is spent in each function using oprofile???? Thanx in advance.....

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    You can definitely do that with gprof and gcov.
    C programming resources:
    GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
    The C Book -- nice online learner guide
    Current ISO draft standard
    CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
    3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
    cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge

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    You can also do it in oprofile, pretty much. That's the minimum functionality any profiler needs to be useful. But oprofile doesn't give you a guaranteed call count, since it's a sample-based profiler instead of an instrumenting one. In other words, it's not guaranteed to catch every call of a sufficiently quick function. But over the run of a program, it statistically evens out, which means that the relative time spent in that function will be sufficiently accurate.
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    Thanks guyz.......Will let you know if I need any help....

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