What is mcount?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Tue Oct 31 01:23:26 AEST 1989


In article <2589 at munnari.oz.au> shek at mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Wilson SHEK) writes:
>	When a program is profiled and the results are shown using 
>prof, there is always a function named mcount somewhere in the table.
>What is mcount and where does it come from?

"mcount" is the part of the run-time support that tallies function
entry counts.  Just ignore it.



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