6.1 How do I specify which profiler generated the profile results?
When you open a file using the Open... menu command, check the appropriate profiler name
in the buttons at the bottom of the File Open dialog.
6.2 What happens when I open an application with KProf?
KProf first looks for a file name gmon.out in the same directory. If the file is
found, KProf assumes that the program was compiled with GNU gprof profiling turned on
(option -pg in GCC) and calls gprof to generate the actual profile results. If the file
is not found, KProf looks for another file name fncdump.out which is the results of
execution profiling generated by Function Check. If found, KProf calls fncdump to
generate the actual results file. These operations are fully automated, all you have to
do is open the executable and let KProf do the work for you.
6.3 Why is KProf slow when I open a Palm OS profile results file?
Profile results generated by POSE (the Palm OS Emulator) require that KProf uses
function name comparisons to retrieve each function's entry. This makes the parsing of
such files a bit slow.
6.4 When I try opening my text results file, KProf keeps telling me that it cannot open it.
Make sure that the 'x' (executable) bit is not set on your file. If in doubt, do chmod -x yourfile.