* gdbarch.sh, hp-psymtab-read.c, hpread.c, m3-nat.c, mcore-tdep.c,

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gprof / gprof.1

diff --git a/gprof/gprof.1 b/gprof/gprof.1
index 5dc48cee820bfe8c3e7c9c34d896aece6e8f638d..5a734da0b21980b256a63b02114967c0f67963d5 100644 (file)
--- a/gprof/gprof.1
+++ b/gprof/gprof.1
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)gprof.1    6.6 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
 .\"
-.TH GPROF 1 "July 24, 1990"
+.TH GPROF 1 "January 29, 1993"
 .SH NAME
 gprof \- display call graph profile data
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ gprof \- display call graph profile data
 .B [ \-k
 .I fromname toname
 .B ] [ 
-.I a.out
+.I objfile
 .B [ 
 .I gmon.out
 .B ] 
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ Cycles are discovered, and calls into a cycle are made to share the time
 of the cycle.
 The first listing shows the functions
 sorted according to the time they represent
-including the time of their call graph descendents.
+including the time of their call graph descendants.
 Below each function entry is shown its (direct) call graph children,
 and how their times are propagated to this function.
 A similar display above the function shows how this function's time and the
-time of its descendents is propagated to its (direct) call graph parents.
+time of its descendants is propagated to its (direct) call graph parents.
 .PP
 Cycles are also shown, with an entry for the cycle as a whole and
 a listing of the members of the cycle and their contributions to the
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ Second, a flat profile is given,
 similar to that provided by
 .BR prof ( 1 )  .
 This listing gives the total execution times, the call counts,
-the time in milleseconds the call spent in the routine itself, and
-the time in milleseconds the call spent in the routine itself including
-its descendents.
+the time in milliseconds the call spent in the routine itself, and
+the time in milliseconds the call spent in the routine itself including
+its descendants.
 .PP
 Finally, an index of the function names is provided.
 .SH OPTIONS
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ suppresses the printing of statically declared functions.
 If this option is given, all relevant information about the static function
 (e.g., time samples, calls to other functions, calls from other functions)
 belongs to the function loaded just before the static function in the
-\&`a.out' file.
+\&`objfile' file.
 .TP
 .B \-b
 suppresses the printing of a description of each field in the profile.
@@ -187,7 +187,10 @@ the sum of the profile information in all the specified profile files.
 This summary profile file may be given to later
 executions of gprof (probably also with a
 .BR \-s  )
-to accumulate profile data across several runs of an `a.out' file.
+to accumulate profile data across several runs of an `objfile' file.
+.TP
+.B -v
+prints the version number for gprof, and then exits.
 .TP
 .B -z
 displays routines that have zero usage (as shown by call counts