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								<a name="MSP430-Profiling-Capability"></a>Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="MSP430-Opcodes.html#MSP430-Opcodes">MSP430 Opcodes</a>,
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								<h4 class="subsection">9.24.6 Profiling Capability</h4>
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								<p><a name="index-MSP-430-profiling-capability-1342"></a><a name="index-profiling-capability-for-MSP-430-1343"></a>It is a performance hit to use gcc's profiling approach for this tiny target. 
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								Even more – jtag hardware facility does not perform any profiling functions. 
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								However we've got gdb's built-in simulator where we can do anything.
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								   <p>We define new section <span class="samp">.profiler</span> which holds all profiling information. 
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								We define new pseudo operation <span class="samp">.profiler</span> which will instruct assembler to
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								add new profile entry to the object file. Profile should take place at the
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								present address.
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								   <p>Pseudo operation format:
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								   <p><span class="samp">.profiler flags,function_to_profile [, cycle_corrector, extra]</span>
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								   <p>where:
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								     <dl>
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								<span class="samp">flags</span> is a combination of the following characters:
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								          <dt><code>s</code><dd>function entry
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								<br><dt><code>x</code><dd>function exit
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								<br><dt><code>i</code><dd>function is in init section
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								<br><dt><code>f</code><dd>function is in fini section
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								<br><dt><code>l</code><dd>library call
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								<br><dt><code>c</code><dd>libc standard call
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								<br><dt><code>d</code><dd>stack value demand
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								<br><dt><code>I</code><dd>interrupt service routine
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								<br><dt><code>P</code><dd>prologue start
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								<br><dt><code>p</code><dd>prologue end
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								<br><dt><code>E</code><dd>epilogue start
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								<br><dt><code>e</code><dd>epilogue end
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								<br><dt><code>j</code><dd>long jump / sjlj unwind
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								<br><dt><code>a</code><dd>an arbitrary code fragment
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								<br><dt><code>t</code><dd>extra parameter saved (a constant value like frame size)
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								     <br><dt><code>function_to_profile</code><dd>a function address
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								<br><dt><code>cycle_corrector</code><dd>a value which should be added to the cycle counter, zero if omitted. 
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								<br><dt><code>extra</code><dd>any extra parameter, zero if omitted.
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								   <p>For example:
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								<pre class="smallexample">     .global fxx
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								     .type fxx,@function
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								     fxx:
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								     .LFrameOffset_fxx=0x08
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								     .profiler "scdP", fxx     ; function entry.
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								     			  ; we also demand stack value to be saved
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								       push r11
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								       push r10
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								     .profiler "cdpt",fxx,0, .LFrameOffset_fxx  ; check stack value at this point
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								     					  ; (this is a prologue end)
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								     					  ; note, that spare var filled with
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								     					  ; the farme size
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								       mov r15,r8
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								     .profiler cdE,fxx         ; check stack
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								       pop r8
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								       pop r9
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								       pop r11
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								     .profiler xcde,fxx,3      ; exit adds 3 to the cycle counter
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								       ret                     ; cause 'ret' insn takes 3 cycles
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