Re: gprof

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Susukita,

> $ time ./a.out
> real    0m4.324s

> $ gprof a.out
> Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
>   %   cumulative   self              self     total           
>  time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
>   9.46     43.22     4.09                             rand

This looks like a gprof bug.  Specifically I would guess that either the 
sample period is incorrect or else the clock frequency calculated by the 
gprof/hertz.c:hertz() function is wrong.

Cheers
  Nick