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Subject: Re: Profiling

Author: James Robertson

Date: 15:43:46 04/17/99

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On April 17, 1999 at 17:23:06, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On April 17, 1999 at 14:11:41, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>A absolutely cannot get the VC++ profile to work. A few months ago I posted a
>>message on this topic and no one could really help, but I'll try again. Maybe
>>somebody has some suggestions? Has ANYBODY gotton the VC++ profiler to work?
>>
>>James
>
>Yes.  I don't use the IDE, I use the tools from the command line.
>
>I compile with -Zi, which may or may not be necessary, and I link with /DEBUG
>/DEBUGTYPE:CV.  You *may* have to link with /FIXED:NO, I might be wrong about
>needing to do that, it may have only been necessary on the alpha.
>
>Here is the iimportant part of the batch macro that I used to run the profiler:
>
>prep /SF _VThink /om /ft ferret.exe
>if errorlevel 1 goto done
>profile ferret -s 3600 e:\foo.ci
>if errorlevel 1 goto done
>prep /m ferret
>if errorlevel 1 goto done
>plist ferret >pr
>:done
>
>My exe is called "ferret.exe".  My function that does all of the thinking is
>"_VThink".  I collect everything that happens under this function, but you can
>also run it so that it collects statistics for the app as a whole.  The "-s 3600
>e:\foo.ci" is my command line arguments, you would have to change this.
>
>The thing runs at maybe 1/60 of normal speed, so you can't just run it for a few
>seconds, although you could start out doing that of course, just to see that you
>are getting statistics.
>
>My output goes into a file called "pr".
>
>If this doesn't work, there are MSVC usenet groups.
>
>bruce

Actually, it works. Thanks! Apparently I had the directories screwed completely
up. Unfortunately, "Prep" says that it cannot find my think function (named
"Think"). Any suggestions?

James



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