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Tools > Profiling

The Tools > Profiling command invokes a statistical profiler on the designated executable file. For Apex native systems, either the Prof or the Gprof profiler can be invoked. For Apex embedded systems, the Apex Statistical Profiler is nvoked.

Note that in order to use profiling, you must set the PROFILING switch to either prof or gprof, then code, link and execute the program(s) you wish to profile. After execution, use this dialog to analyze the profiling data. For embedded systems, set the PROFILING switch to prof to enable profiling (gprof is not recognized).

Select OK when you are ready. The prof, gprof, or apex_prof output is demangled and output to a display window.

Note: Compiler generated profiling is not supported on SGI machines.

Profiling Dialog Box Fields:

Note: If you invoke the profiler using the Tools > Profiling command, the output is automatically piped through demangle. If the profiler (or any other tool on Apex), is invoked without using the Apex GUI, the text output must be piped through demangle. For example,

 cat output_file | demangle load_module

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