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| 2 | <title>LLVM: llvm-prof tool</title> |
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| 6 | <center><h1>LLVM: <tt>llvm-prof</tt> tool</h1></center> |
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| 8 | |
| 9 | <h3>NAME</h3> |
| 10 | <tt>llvm-prof</tt> |
| 11 | |
| 12 | <h3>SYNOPSIS</h3> |
| 13 | <tt>llvm-prof [options] [bytecode file] [LLVM passes]</tt> |
| 14 | |
| 15 | <h3>DESCRIPTION</h3> |
| 16 | |
| 17 | The <tt>llvm-prof</tt> tool reads in an '<tt>llvmprof.out</tt>' file, a bytecode |
| 18 | file for the program, and produces a human readable report, suitable for |
| 19 | determining where the program hotspots are.<p> |
| 20 | |
| Chris Lattner | f22d843 | 2003-11-02 05:20:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 21 | This program is often used in conjunction with the <tt>utils/profile.sh</tt> |
| 22 | script. This script automatically instruments a program, runs it with the JIT, |
| 23 | then runs <tt>llvm-prof</tt> to format a report. To get more information about |
| 24 | <tt>utils/profile.sh</tt>, execute it with the <tt>--help</tt> option.<p> |
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| 26 | <h3>OPTIONS</h3> |
| 27 | |
| 28 | <ul> |
| 29 | <li><tt>-annotated-llvm</tt> or <tt>-A</tt><br> |
| 30 | |
| 31 | In addition to the normal report printed, print out the code for the |
| 32 | program, annotated we execution frequency information. This can be |
| 33 | particularly useful when trying to visualize how frequently basic blocks |
| 34 | are executed. This is most useful with basic block profiling |
| 35 | information or better.<p> |
| 36 | </ul> |
| 37 | |
| 38 | <h3>EXIT STATUS</h3> |
| 39 | |
| 40 | <tt>llvm-prof</tt> returns 1 if it cannot load the bytecode file or the profile |
| 41 | information, otherwise it exits with zero. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | <HR> |
| 44 | Maintained by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Team</a>. |
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