[FFmpeg-devel] gprof and FFmpeg

[Måns Rullgård]

Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to profile certain portions of FFmpeg using gprof. But when 
> I try to compiler FFmpeg using the --enable-gprof option, the 
> compilation process dies of register exhaustion. Yeah, you know the 
> error: "can't find a register in class 'GENERAL_REGS' while reloading 
> 'asm'". This is with 4.1.3 and 4.3.0 on x86_32.

This is to be expected.  Maybe it will compile with --disable-mmx.

> Has anyone tried using gprof with FFmpeg lately? I try using oprofile 
> but I rarely have much luck getting it set up.

Oprofile is generally much more reliable than gprof.  What kind of
problems are you having?

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