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 - <h4 class="subsection">9.29.6 Profiling Capability</h4>
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 - <p>It is a performance hit to use gcc’s profiling approach for this tiny target.
 - Even more – jtag hardware facility does not perform any profiling functions.
 - However we’ve got gdb’s built-in simulator where we can do anything.
 - </p>
 - <p>We define new section ‘<samp>.profiler</samp>’ which holds all profiling information.
 - We define new pseudo operation ‘<samp>.profiler</samp>’ which will instruct assembler to
 - add new profile entry to the object file. Profile should take place at the
 - present address.
 - </p>
 - <p>Pseudo operation format:
 - </p>
 - <p>‘<samp>.profiler flags,function_to_profile [, cycle_corrector, extra]</samp>’
 - </p>
 - 
 - <p>where:
 - </p>
 - <dl compact="compact">
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 - <dl compact="compact">
 - <dd>
 - <p>‘<samp>flags</samp>’ is a combination of the following characters:
 - </p>
 - </dd>
 - <dt><code>s</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>function entry
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>x</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>function exit
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>i</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>function is in init section
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>f</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>function is in fini section
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>l</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>library call
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>c</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>libc standard call
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>d</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>stack value demand
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>I</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>interrupt service routine
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>P</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>prologue start
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>p</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>prologue end
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>E</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>epilogue start
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>e</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>epilogue end
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>j</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>long jump / sjlj unwind
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>a</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>an arbitrary code fragment
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>t</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>extra parameter saved (a constant value like frame size)
 - </p></dd>
 - </dl>
 - 
 - </dd>
 - <dt><code>function_to_profile</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>a function address
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>cycle_corrector</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>a value which should be added to the cycle counter, zero if omitted.
 - </p></dd>
 - <dt><code>extra</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>any extra parameter, zero if omitted.
 - </p>
 - </dd>
 - </dl>
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 - <p>For example:
 - </p><div class="smallexample">
 - <pre class="smallexample">.global fxx
 - .type fxx,@function
 - fxx:
 - .LFrameOffset_fxx=0x08
 - .profiler "scdP", fxx     ; function entry.
 - 			  ; we also demand stack value to be saved
 -   push r11
 -   push r10
 -   push r9
 -   push r8
 - .profiler "cdpt",fxx,0, .LFrameOffset_fxx  ; check stack value at this point
 - 					  ; (this is a prologue end)
 - 					  ; note, that spare var filled with
 - 					  ; the farme size
 -   mov r15,r8
 - ...
 - .profiler cdE,fxx         ; check stack
 -   pop r8
 -   pop r9
 -   pop r10
 -   pop r11
 - .profiler xcde,fxx,3      ; exit adds 3 to the cycle counter
 -   ret                     ; cause 'ret' insn takes 3 cycles
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