[LLVMdev] How to use profiling runtime for program profiling?

[Haifeng He]

Thank for the reply. It works if I link the runtime library manually.

Best,
Haifeng

On Jan 30, 2008 2:23 AM, Christian Plessl <christian at plesslweb.ch> wrote:
> Hi Haifeng
>
>
> > I have a question about how to profile program with LLVM. When I tried
> > to compile the instrumented version of program after using "-insert-
> > block-profiling", I got
> > error complaining " undefined reference to
> > `llvm_start_block_profiling'.
> >
> > I found that there is a "runtime"directory in llvm source directory
> > but in the Makefile, it said llvm gcc 4 and above already included
> > the libraries. I was using llvm
> > gcc 4. Why would I still get the error?
>
> I experienced the same error on Mac OS X when using the binary
> distribution of llvm-gcc 4.0 and building llvm from SVN head. It seems
> that the comment in the Makefile is wrong. I had to explicitly build
> the runtime using 'make -C runtime install'.
>
> You will also find the utils/profile.pl script useful, which passes
> profiling options to opt for instrumenting the bytecode and calls lli
> with the correct arguments and paths for loading the profiling library
> profile_rt.so (which defines 'llvm_start_block_profiling' etc.)
>
> Best regards,
>   Christian
>
>
>
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