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- .th MONITOR III 2/11/74
- .sh NAME
- monitor \*- prepare execution profile
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- .ft B
- monitor(lowpc, highpc, buffer, bufsize)
- .br
- int lowpc( ), highpc( ), buffer[ ], bufsize;
- .ft R
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- .it Monitor
- is an interface to the system's profile entry (II).
- .it Lowpc
- and
- .it highpc
- are the names of two functions;
- .it buffer
- is the address of a (user supplied)
- array of
- .it bufsize
- integers.
- .it Monitor
- arranges for the system to sample the user's
- program counter periodically
- and record the execution histogram in
- the buffer.
- The lowest address sampled
- is that of
- .it lowpc
- and the highest is
- just below
- .it highpc.
- For the results to be significant,
- especially where there are small, heavily
- used routines,
- it is suggested that the buffer be no more
- than a few times smaller than the range
- of locations sampled.
- .s3
- To profile the entire program,
- it is sufficient to use
- .s3
- extern etext;
- .br
- ...
- .br
- monitor(2, &etext, buf, bufsize);
- .s3
- .it Etext
- is a loader-defined symbol which lies just above all the
- program text.
- .s3
- To stop execution monitoring and write the results
- on the file
- .it mon.out,
- use
- .s3
- monitor(0);
- .s3
- Then, when the program exits, prof (I) can be used
- to examine the results.
- .s3
- It is seldom necessary to call this routine
- directly; the
- .bd \*-p
- option of
- .it cc
- is simpler if one is satisfied with
- its default profile range and resolution.
- .sh FILES
- mon.out
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- prof (I), profil (II), cc (I)
-