(g)prof on Sun's

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <10882 at ncar.ucar.edu>, rob at hao.ucar.edu (Rob Montgomery) writes:
|> On a large program (not written by me):  I follow the above procedure
|> and get a core dump from running the "-p" version, and from neither the
|> "-p" nor the "-pg" codes do I get a *.out file.

  My man page says that -p or -pg "arranges to write out a [g]mon.out file at
normal termination of execution of the object program."

  A coredump is not normal termination, so the mon.out/gmon.out file is not
written.

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