plumpmath / pyprofgen

gprof HTML output generator

PyProfGen

PyProfGen generates HTML documentation of the result of gprof(1).

Sample Output

See the output here.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/cinsk/pyprofgen.git
$ cd pyprofgen
$ make all
$ make install

Usage

$ ls
demo.c
$ gcc -g -pg -o demo demo.c -lc_p
$ ./demo
$ ls -F
demo*   demo.c   gmon.out
$ pyprofgen --help
USAGE: pyprofgen [OPTION...] executable [gmon.out]
Generate HTML documents from gmon.out

  -d DIR,               Set the output directory to DIR,
      --directory=DIR     (default: doc)
  -q, --quiet           Quite mode, (default: verbose mode)
  -h, --help            Show help message
  -v, --version         Print version information

Report bugs to <cinsk at cinsk.org>.

$ pyprofgen demo gmon.out
...
$ ls -F
demo*   demo.c   gmon.out   prof/
$ elinks prof/html/index.html	# use your favorite browsers.
$ _

Requirements

As the package name implies, PyProfGen uses Python to interpret the output of gprof(1). I tested on two environments:

• Redhat Fedora Core 2:

  • Python version 2.3.3
  • graphviz version 1.12
  • gprof(1) in binutils version 2.15.90

• Gentoo Linux 2005.0

  • Python version 2.3.5
  • graphviz version 2.2.1
  • gprof(1) in binutils version 2.15.92