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								<a name="Deprecated-Options"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Symspecs.html#Symspecs">Symspecs</a>,
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								<h3 class="section">4.4 Deprecated Options</h3>
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								     <dl>
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								These options have been replaced with newer versions that use symspecs.
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								     <dt><code>-e </code><var>function_name</var><dd>The <span class="samp">-e </span><var>function</var> option tells <code>gprof</code> to not print
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								information about the function <var>function_name</var> (and its
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								children<small class="dots">...</small>) in the call graph.  The function will still be listed
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								as a child of any functions that call it, but its index number will be
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								shown as <span class="samp">[not printed]</span>.  More than one <span class="samp">-e</span> option may be
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								given; only one <var>function_name</var> may be indicated with each <span class="samp">-e</span>
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								option.
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								     <br><dt><code>-E </code><var>function_name</var><dd>The <code>-E </code><var>function</var> option works like the <code>-e</code> option, but
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								time spent in the function (and children who were not called from
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								anywhere else), will not be used to compute the percentages-of-time for
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								the call graph.  More than one <span class="samp">-E</span> option may be given; only one
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								<var>function_name</var> may be indicated with each <span class="samp">-E</span> option.
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								     <br><dt><code>-f </code><var>function_name</var><dd>The <span class="samp">-f </span><var>function</var> option causes <code>gprof</code> to limit the
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								call graph to the function <var>function_name</var> and its children (and
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								their children<small class="dots">...</small>).  More than one <span class="samp">-f</span> option may be given;
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								only one <var>function_name</var> may be indicated with each <span class="samp">-f</span>
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								     <br><dt><code>-F </code><var>function_name</var><dd>The <span class="samp">-F </span><var>function</var> option works like the <code>-f</code> option, but
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								only time spent in the function and its children (and their
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								children<small class="dots">...</small>) will be used to determine total-time and
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								percentages-of-time for the call graph.  More than one <span class="samp">-F</span> option
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								may be given; only one <var>function_name</var> may be indicated with each
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								<span class="samp">-F</span> option.  The <span class="samp">-F</span> option overrides the <span class="samp">-E</span> option.
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								<p>Note that only one function can be specified with each <code>-e</code>,
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								<code>-E</code>, <code>-f</code> or <code>-F</code> option.  To specify more than one
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								function, use multiple options.  For example, this command:
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								<pre class="example">     gprof -e boring -f foo -f bar myprogram > gprof.output
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								   <p class="noindent">lists in the call graph all functions that were reached from either
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								<code>foo</code> or <code>bar</code> and were not reachable from <code>boring</code>.
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