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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:40:15 +0100
From:      Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at>
To:        FreeBSD_Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Simple question about profiling
Message-ID:  <20030219224015.GB40831@devil.stderror.at>
In-Reply-To: <20030218213616.GA1048@southcross.skynet.org>
References:  <20030218213616.GA1048@southcross.skynet.org>

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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:36:16PM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote:
>=20
> I've to confess this my first serious profile session, and
> i found something really strange (at least for me... =3DP)
>=20
>  74.4      39.26    39.26                             .mcount (83)

> i think this is the beef: what the hell is .mcount?!?!
> if i read the table correctly, .mcount is the guilty, isn't it?

i think mcount is used for profiling, so it doesn't count! see

http://www.gnu.org/manual/gprof-2.9.1/html_node/gprof_25.html

toni
--=20
Terror ist der Krieg der Armen,   | toni@stderror.at
Krieg ist der Terror der Reichen. | Toni Schmidbauer
- Sir Peter Ustinov               |

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