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Subject: Re: VC++ profiler

Author: James Robertson

Date: 18:27:33 01/07/99

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On January 07, 1999 at 19:41:09, Marc wrote:

>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

**Sigh**
No one seems to have any idea where in the documentation anything might be....
James

>a search on PLIST or tab-delimited might help.
>
>>I hope this helps :)
>>
>>Amir



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