Author: Marc
Date: 16:41:09 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 17:57:38, Amir Ban wrote: >On January 07, 1999 at 17:20:11, Marc wrote: > >>On January 07, 1999 at 12:54:47, James Robertson wrote: >> >>>I am having a terrible time trying to VC++ 5.0 profiler to work. Here is what I >>>am doing: >>>1. Going to Project:Settings, and enabling profiling. >>>2. Going to Build:Profile, and choosing function timing. >>>3. Going to Build:Execute Program and executing my program. >>>4. Looking vainly for profile output (there is none in the profile tab of the >>>output window). >>> >>>Help! >>> >>>James >> >>I had the same problem and found no help in the documentation. >>What I ended up doing is adding the MS VC bin path to my autoexec.bat file then >>running >>1.PREP >>2.PROFILE >>3.PREP >>4.PLIST >>from inside a DOS window. That works fine. >>You'll probably want to do it this way anyway in order to use all the nifty >>options (like profiling a thread). >>You can get all the info you need on PREP/PLIST... from the Developer's Network >>CD. >> >>Hope that helps, and if you figure out how to profile from the dev environment, >>please post instructions. >> >>Marc > >I also got this far after a few weeks of puzzling why the profile feature >doesn't work, until I hit on a doc page describing something like the above. It >sort of works, but I found the profiling results to be illogical and >meaningless. I played around with it until I gave it up. The thing is >practically undocumented, insanely complicated, and probably doesn't work >either. > The raw output of PLIST is meaningless, until you load it into Excel. The documentation has step-by-step instructions on how to convert the PLIST'd output file into tab-delimited form, load it into Excel, and an Excel macro that makes sense of the data. I don't have the specific documentation location, but a search on PLIST or tab-delimited might help. >I hope this helps :) > >Amir
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