Re: Loop profiling

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:43:34 +0000, Randy Howard wrote:


Any ideas? Right now, I help myself out with C macros but the
instrumentation is still very tedious.

Well, easy answer would be to write the loop iteration count statistics
to a log file, in a well-defined format that included the function
name, a line number, etc., then have another tool (or even
a shell script using grep intelligently) to pull the data back out and
present it in a more nicely formatted way.

Thank you for your ideas. But, as I understood your ideas, they all
expect the user to add some individual code for each loop under test.
That's what I'm currently doing, but for more complex applications
this becomes a tedious job. This was the reason why I was looking for
an automatic approach, something in the direction of gcov...

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