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								<h2 class="chapter">8 Incompatibilities with Unix <code>gprof</code></h2>
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								<p><span class="sc">gnu</span> <code>gprof</code> and Berkeley Unix <code>gprof</code> use the same data
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								file <span class="file">gmon.out</span>, and provide essentially the same information.  But
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								there are a few differences.
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								<li><span class="sc">gnu</span> <code>gprof</code> uses a new, generalized file format with support
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								for basic-block execution counts and non-realtime histograms.  A magic
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								cookie and version number allows <code>gprof</code> to easily identify
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								new style files.  Old BSD-style files can still be read. 
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								See <a href="File-Format.html#File-Format">Profiling Data File Format</a>.
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								     <li>For a recursive function, Unix <code>gprof</code> lists the function as a
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								parent and as a child, with a <code>calls</code> field that lists the number
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								of recursive calls.  <span class="sc">gnu</span> <code>gprof</code> omits these lines and puts
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								the number of recursive calls in the primary line.
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								     <li>When a function is suppressed from the call graph with <span class="samp">-e</span>, <span class="sc">gnu</span>
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								<code>gprof</code> still lists it as a subroutine of functions that call it.
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								     <li><span class="sc">gnu</span> <code>gprof</code> accepts the <span class="samp">-k</span> with its argument
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								in the form <span class="samp">from/to</span>, instead of <span class="samp">from to</span>.
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								     <li>In the annotated source listing,
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								if there are multiple basic blocks on the same line,
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								<span class="sc">gnu</span> <code>gprof</code> prints all of their counts, separated by commas.
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								     <li>The blurbs, field widths, and output formats are different.  <span class="sc">gnu</span>
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								<code>gprof</code> prints blurbs after the tables, so that you can see the
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								tables without skipping the blurbs. 
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