- add support for prof file format so that prof files can be displayed at the line-level (this is useful for the uprofile tool under DEC's OSF/1) - take a hard look at --file-ordering (broken) and --function-ordering + documentation + optimize bfd_find_nearest_line_num() (or replace by different interface) + cleanup _bfd_ecoff_find_nearest_line_num() fixes & description + ensure "cc -pg" produces good files under OSF/1 v3.0 + make sure gprof works together with OSF/1 v3.0's profiling libraries + implement symtab_parse(); modify sym_lookup() to consider addr_high + change gprof.c to collect lists, then invoke symtab_parse() for each list + Questions: o is -c (--static-call-graph) useful at all? i can't see how; if it were deleted, gprof would be completely machine independent => yup, it is o are (long) option names appropriate? o -k (--exclude-arc) cannot be implemented with getopt(); is new syntax (-k from/to) acceptable? If not, how to fix it? o in the FSF output, the call-graph index now prints the filename of static functions in parentheses; e.g., static function foo() that is defined in file bar.c would be printed as: [4] foo (bar.c) is this acceptable? should it be done only optionally? o symbols with addresses that map back to a different name are suppressed (happens with labels, for example); is this acceptable? should it be done only optionally? + generalize to allow arbitrary histograms (not just time histograms) + basic-block information currently replaces all symbols created from the core because of an ugly ordering conflict---for now, the current solution works, but something cleaner is desirable ==> cleaned up, but it's slower now + convert to very new file format (back to trivial format, that is :) + replace "dummy.h" for Alpha (if there is any use to it) + add support for execution time profiling at a basic-block level + fix filename-off-by-one bug for Alpha (see ~/tmp/d.[ch])---no longer relevant + "-pg -a" doesn't work as expected because mcleanup() will overwrite the file generated by __bb_exit_func() (or vice versa) + first basic-block of fac() seems to get credited to last basic-block of previous function => bug in basic_blocks.c + flat profile should provide automatic scaling for per-call times because otherwise they'll always be zero on a fast machine with tons of small functions + make "-a" imply to retain line number info (without actually generating the debugging information (unless -g is specified)---no, this is a bad idea, because it is not clear what level of debugging info should be requested (e.g., -g vs. -g3); leaving it up to the user seems best + add long options support (or at least use getopt instead of ad-hoc implementation) + split into files according to abstract objects that are manipulated + replace sccsid by rcsid & add "end of ..." to every .c file + use DBG() everywhere + fix spacing (" ," -> "," etc.) + use DEFUNs everywhere + make compile cleanly with -Wall + "gcc -pg -O2" doesn't work on tecc.c unless -fno-omit-frame-pointer is specified; find out why + make things portable (prototypes, const, etc.) + if NEW_GMON_OUT is not defined, have a flag that will allow to read new gmon.out style files. The idea being that everyone will use the new format for basic-block style profiling but the old format for regular gpprofiling