hpux man page for monitor

monitor(3C)															       monitor(3C)

NAME
       monitor() - prepare execution profile

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       An  executable  program	created  by automatically includes calls for with default parameters; need not be called explicitly except to gain
       fine control over profiling.

       is an interface to profil(2).  lowpc and highpc are the addresses of two functions; buffer is the address of  a	(user-supplied)  array	of
       bufsize WORDs (defined in the header file).  The address should have proper alignment to be cast to type and in

       arranges to record in the buffer a histogram of periodically sampled values of the program counter, and of counts of calls of certain func-
       tions.  The lowest address sampled is that of lowpc and the highest is just below highpc.  lowpc must not equal 0 for this use of  monitor.
       Not  more  than	nfunc call counts can be kept; only calls of functions compiled with the profiling option of are recorded.  (The C Library
       and Math Library supplied when is used also have call counts recorded.)

       For results to be significant, especially where there are small, heavily used routines, it is suggested that the buffer be no more  than  a
       few times smaller than the range of locations sampled.

       To profile the entire program, it is sufficient to use

		   ...

       etext lies just above all the program text (see end(3C)).

       To stop execution monitoring and write the results on file use

       prof(1) can then be used to examine the results.

FILES
SEE ALSO
       cc_bundled(1), prof(1), profil(2), end(3C).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
																       monitor(3C)