profiler

[grv575]

does that flag just amount to adding -pg to the compile & link stages,
or is there more to it than that global change?  because I couldn't
get python to generate a gmon.out output file using a version of
python configured with the flag, but it did do so by just adding -pg
to OPTS and LDPATH I think it was.  But now it gives profiling output
but gprof dies with:

# gprof gmon.out
gprof: gmon.out: not in a.out format

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.2299.1093379611.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> Brett> As of Python 2.4 you can also compile in support for C-level
>     Brett> profiling into the interpreter (--enable-profiling).  See the
>     Brett> in-dev docs (http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/) for details.
> 
> Ummm... That's a pretty high-level url.  How about:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node11.html
> 
> instead.  Even though I was the guy that added the --enable-profiling flag
> to configure it still took me a couple minutes to find the above url. <wink>
> 
> Skip