Re: [gprof] strange behavior, esp spontaneous

[Ben Elliston]

> By the way, I think I've identified the source for gprof on OS X; it
> appears to be *BSD in origin (Berkeley, not GNU license).  I'm not
> sure what its relation is to the GNU gprof.  The OS X compilers are
> basically GNU, with some Apple tweaks.

The gprof that comes with binutils came from BSD originally and has
been adopted as a GNU package with work being done to it independently
of its ancestor.  As you probably know, the `g' in gprof has nothing
to do with GNU.  This is a common misunderstanding.

I don't know off-hand which gprof ships with OS X.

Cheers, Ben

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