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| author | njn <njn@a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9> | 2008-10-30 02:41:13 +0000 |
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| committer | njn <njn@a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9> | 2008-10-30 02:41:13 +0000 |
| commit | 85a38bc73d51f1d02ce2f6ea1fe058ac4e3cdfb5 (patch) | |
| tree | 16b90c1d52892aa7061aa533136e34f880f2a89e /cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml | |
| parent | 7d7691194ba0f1011b341ccc517f8a474169f403 (diff) | |
| download | valgrind-85a38bc73d51f1d02ce2f6ea1fe058ac4e3cdfb5.tar.gz | |
A clarification.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@8717 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
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diff --git a/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml b/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml index 7c1764e00..f65272bbc 100644 --- a/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml +++ b/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml @@ -807,16 +807,12 @@ interesting line of C code is translated into multiple instructions.</para> <para>To do this, you just need to assemble your -<computeroutput>.s</computeroutput> files with assembler-level -debug information. gcc doesn't do this, but you can use the GNU -assembler with the <computeroutput>--gstabs</computeroutput> -option to generate object files with this information, eg:</para> - -<programlisting><![CDATA[ -as --gstabs foo.s]]></programlisting> - -<para>You can then profile and annotate source files in the same -way as for C/C++ programs.</para> +<computeroutput>.s</computeroutput> files with assembly-level debug +information. You can use <computeroutput>gcc +-S</computeroutput> to compile C/C++ programs to assembly code, and then +<computeroutput>gcc -g</computeroutput> on the assembly code files to +achieve this. You can then profile and annotate the assembly code source +files in the same way as C/C++ source files.</para> </sect2> |