gprof with C and C++ not working

[Alex]

Hello,
Need your help, second day can't get this working.
I need to compile a program with gprof.
Program compiles, but doesnt generate information I need.

Program consists of C and C++ code, and is compiled on SunOS 2.6.
For C compiler we use "cc: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2"
For C++ compiler we use "gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)"
The link stage we use the same C++ compiler (gcc).

I am not compiling entire souce with gprof options. Only the major
part of what I want to analize.
For cc I used -xpg option
and for gcc I used -pg option
link line does: gcc -pg
and links C and C++ code.

To me it looks like only the C++ code gets profiled. I see some
references to "main", but nothing I am interested in.
The program creates children processes, so I figured to set PROFDIR.
When I set it, no profile file gets generated at all (I tried a simple
a.out, that generates a file exactly where I want it).

So something bad is happening.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thank you.
Alex

[llewelly]

[email]abeylin@yahoo.com[/email] (Alex) writes:

> Hello,
> Need your help, second day can't get this working.
> I need to compile a program with gprof.
> Program compiles, but doesnt generate information I need.
>
> Program consists of C and C++ code, and is compiled on SunOS 2.6.
> For C compiler we use "cc: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2"
> For C++ compiler we use "gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)"
> The link stage we use the same C++ compiler (gcc).

>
> I am not compiling entire souce with gprof options. Only the major
> part of what I want to analize.
> For cc I used -xpg option
> and for gcc I used -pg option
> link line does: gcc -pg
> and links C and C++ code.

>
> To me it looks like only the C++ code gets profiled. I see some
> references to "main", but nothing I am interested in.
> The program creates children processes, so I figured to set PROFDIR.
> When I set it, no profile file gets generated at all (I tried a simple
> a.out, that generates a file exactly where I want it).

IIRC, the profiling info generated by using Sun cc -xpg is not
readable by gprof. My only suggestion is to use gcc -pg to compile
your C code instead of Sun cc.

[Alex]

Oleg Goldshmidt <pub@NOSPAM.goldshmidt.org> wrote in message news:<m3fzlmrn4u.fsf@zaphod.goldshmidt.org>...

> llewelly <llewelly.at@xmission.dot.com> writes:
>

> > [email]abeylin@yahoo.com[/email] (Alex) writes:
> >

> > > Hello,
> > > Need your help, second day can't get this working.
> > > I need to compile a program with gprof.
> > > Program compiles, but doesnt generate information I need.
> > >
> > > Program consists of C and C++ code, and is compiled on SunOS 2.6.
> > > For C compiler we use "cc: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2"
> > > For C++ compiler we use "gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)"
> > > The link stage we use the same C++ compiler (gcc).

>

> > >
> > > I am not compiling entire souce with gprof options. Only the major
> > > part of what I want to analize.
> > > For cc I used -xpg option
> > > and for gcc I used -pg option
> > > link line does: gcc -pg
> > > and links C and C++ code.

>

> > >
> > > To me it looks like only the C++ code gets profiled. I see some
> > > references to "main", but nothing I am interested in.
> > > The program creates children processes, so I figured to set PROFDIR.
> > > When I set it, no profile file gets generated at all (I tried a simple
> > > a.out, that generates a file exactly where I want it).

> >
> > IIRC, the profiling info generated by using Sun cc -xpg is not
> > readable by gprof. My only suggestion is to use gcc -pg to compile
> > your C code instead of Sun cc.

>
> Also, hopefully you use g++ to compile C++, not gcc.

Yes, sorry I am compiling C++ code with g++.
I just wrote gcc, because doing g++ -v produced messages about gcc.
I got a little farther, by compiling more code with profiling.
But now if I compile one of our C libraries with profiling and run
routines from it, the whole thing coredumps. Running same library
without profiling works fine.
I will try compiling with gcc, I was using cc.

Thank you.
Alex

[Wim Lauwers]

Alex wrote:

> Oleg Goldshmidt <pub@NOSPAM.goldshmidt.org> wrote in message news:<m3fzlmrn4u.fsf@zaphod.goldshmidt.org>...
>

>>llewelly <llewelly.at@xmission.dot.com> writes:
>>
>>

>>>abeylin@yahoo.com (Alex) writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>Need your help, second day can't get this working.
>>>>I need to compile a program with gprof.
>>>>Program compiles, but doesnt generate information I need.
>>>>
>>>>Program consists of C and C++ code, and is compiled on SunOS 2.6.
>>>>For C compiler we use "cc: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2"
>>>>For C++ compiler we use "gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)"
>>>>The link stage we use the same C++ compiler (gcc).

>>
>>
>>

>>>>I am not compiling entire souce with gprof options. Only the major
>>>>part of what I want to analize.
>>>>For cc I used -xpg option
>>>>and for gcc I used -pg option
>>>>link line does: gcc -pg
>>>>and links C and C++ code.

>>
>>
>>

>>>>To me it looks like only the C++ code gets profiled. I see some
>>>>references to "main", but nothing I am interested in.
>>>>The program creates children processes, so I figured to set PROFDIR.
>>>>When I set it, no profile file gets generated at all (I tried a simple
>>>>a.out, that generates a file exactly where I want it).
>>>
>>>IIRC, the profiling info generated by using Sun cc -xpg is not
>>> readable by gprof. My only suggestion is to use gcc -pg to compile
>>> your C code instead of Sun cc.

>>
>>Also, hopefully you use g++ to compile C++, not gcc.

>
>
> Yes, sorry I am compiling C++ code with g++.
> I just wrote gcc, because doing g++ -v produced messages about gcc.
> I got a little farther, by compiling more code with profiling.
> But now if I compile one of our C libraries with profiling and run
> routines from it, the whole thing coredumps. Running same library
> without profiling works fine.
> I will try compiling with gcc, I was using cc.
>
> Thank you.
> Alex

Is it a shared library? Might not work, try linking it as a static one (.a).

Wim

[Alex]

I have another problem now.
I was able to build and run with gprof on the machine successfully.
Problem occurs when I try to run the program from a different machine.
I build on SunOS 2.6, and try to run on 2.8.
I get lots of these lines:
libc: warning: libc/libthread interface mismatch: unknown tag value
ignored

than it coredumps.

I tried something crazy: I copied the whole /usr/lib from my 2.6
machine to 2.8 machine, and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to first point there.
The program starts, but it seems that the threads fail, and everything
which is not threaded works.

Do you know if building with gprof and then compying to a different
machine (and OS level) is supported?

Thank you.
Alex