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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