pddump(1)						      General Commands Manual							 pddump(1)

NAME

       pddump - Dump profiling data files

SYNOPSIS

       pddump  file...

OPERANDS

       A data file generated by a profiled program. A valid file is identified as a "profiling data file" by the file(1) command.

DESCRIPTION

       The pddump command displays, on the standard output, the record definitions and data of the specified profiling data files.

       Each  file's  dump  is prefixed by the line "File = file:". This is followed by the file's field-alignment option and a list containing the
       file's name/value attribute pairs and the file's record definitions. Then each record in the file is dumped, showing the name of the record
       and the name and value of each of its fields.

       Strings	are printed within double quotes, unsigned integers are printed in hexadecimal, and signed integers and floating-point numbers are
       printed in decimal. Non-array data lines contain equal signs to assist in filtering.

       The content of the profiling data files produced by Tru64 UNIX may be expanded in future releases, but Tru64 UNIX tools	will  continue	to
       support	older  formats.  To write tools that process Tru64 UNIX profiling data files, use the pdtostd(1) command to convert the Tru64 UNIX
       formats to industry standard formats, where a standard format exists. Alternatively, use the libpdf.a utilities to read the profiling  data
       files directly, skipping any new attributes, records, or fields that may appear.

FILES

       Library of routines for reading and writing profiling data files Header file for libpdf.a

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  atom(1), cc(1), file(1), kprofile(1), pdtostd(1), uprofile(1)

       AtomTools:  hiprof(5), pixie(5)

       Programmer's Guide

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