HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

prof(1) prof(1)

Call counts are always recorded precisely, however.

Only programs that call exit() (see exit(2)) or return from

main cause a proﬁle ﬁle to be produced,

unless a ﬁnal call to

monitor() is explicitly coded.

The use of the

cc -p option to invoke proﬁling imposes a limit of 600 functions that can have call

counters established during program execution. For more counters, call

monitor() directly. If this

limit is exceeded, other data is overwritten and the

mon.out ﬁle is corrupted. The number of call

counters used is reported automatically by the

prof command whenever the number exceeds 5/6 of the

maximum.

FILES

mon.out for proﬁle

a.out for namelist