Herman Schonfeld wrote in a message to Nick Shreders:
 HS> If you ask me, djgpp is good at optimizing.
 HS> It doesn't seem to work. When i try running "gprof tex.exe |
 HS> more" it returns with an error message "unrecognized file
 HS> format".
Do not use the exe, but the file GENERATED by the exe (See below)
 HS> I have compiled correctly with -pg and no
 HS> -fomit-frame-pointer. (they're incompatible).
It is a year ago, so this is becoming a bit vague to me already. I used gprof 
on a RS/6000 AIX machine for profiling. I remember having problems similar to 
you. The way I got it to work is to provide the -pg option when compiling AND 
when linking (I used a makefile since it was a multi module project). Then, 
after you have runned the program as usual and ended it NORMALLY a new file 
has been created in the directory where you run the program. This file should 
be given as input to the gprof utility. I used I/O redirection to write the 
results to a new file (gprof generated_prof_file_name >results.txt). This 
works, but I noticed later that under SCO unix the report was in a different 
format. The way to get to the results was however the same. 
 HS> I tried running "gprof tex.o |more"  and it dumped a whole
 HS> lot of directives on the screen (as if i were to type gprof
 HS> /? etc).
 HS> How do i get this to work?
 HS> ... BREAKFAST.COM Halted... Cereal port not responding.
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 HS>  - Origin: Fox's Lair BBS Bris Aus +61-7-38033908 V34+ Node
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mvg/wr
  
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