3.4.83 –pg

Compile for profiling with the gprof profiler.

Compile self–profiling code in the manner of -p, but invoke a runtime recording mechanism that keeps more extensive statistics and produces a gmon.out file when the program terminates normally. Generate an execution profile by running gprof. See the gprof(1) man page and the Fortran Programming Guide for details.

Library options must be after the source and .o files (–pg libraries are static).

There is no advantage compiling with -xprofile if you specify -pg. These two features do not prepare or use data provided by the other.

Profiles generated by using prof(1) or gprof(1) on 64 bit Solaris platforms or just gprof on 32 bit Solaris platforms include approximate user CPU times. These times are derived from PC sample data (see pcsample(2)) for routines in the main executable and routines in shared libraries specified as linker arguments when the executable is linked. Other shared libraries (libraries opened after process startup using dlopen(3DL)) are not profiled.

On 32 bit Solaris systems, profiles generated using prof(1) are limited to routines in the executable. 32 bit shared libraries can be profiled by linking the executable with -pg and using gprof(1).

The Solaris 10 software does not include system libraries compiled with -p. As a result, profiles collected on Solaris 10 platforms do not include call counts for system library routines.

The compiler options -p, -pg, or -xpg should not be used to compile multi-threaded programs, because the runtime support for these options is not thread-safe. If a program that uses multiple threads is compiled with these options invalid results or a segmentation fault could occur at runtime.

If you compile and link in separate steps, and you compile with -pg, then be sure to link with -pg.