Revision History

• Release 0.12 (2002-03-01)
  • Counter descriptions are always available, even for counters that were not available on the platform used to compile the analysis tools.
  • Now works with perfctr 2.3.4.
  • vprof accepts the relevant arguments that cprof accepts.
  • vprof supports the display of any number of counters.
  • VMON_FILE environmental variable can be used to give the file name for profile data.
  • VMON_FREQ environmental variable can be used to give the profile frequency for perfctr profiles.
  • Added programmer's documentation.
• Release 0.11 (2002-02-04)
  • Qt3 support added. Qt2 will still work.
  • Perfctr was not used correctly for all event types (Owen Kaser). This has been fixed. (The latest perfctr release will not work with VProf, however. That will be fixed in 0.12.)
  • Provide full CPlant/NM support (linux compile node required).
  • More workarounds for problems using binutils with certain object formats.
• Relase 0.10 (2001-09-05)
  • Clean up cprof output.
  • Add html mode for cprof output.
  • (Release testing limited to Linux/Mandrake 8.0.)
• Release 0.9 (2001-08-20)
  • Added perfctr 2 support.
  • (Release testing limited to Linux/Mandrake 8.0.)
• Release 0.8 (2001-07-13)
  • Work around problem with recent IBM compilers and BFD.
  • PAPI 1.1.5 support.
• Release 0.7 (2001-04-25)
  • Pthread and MPI test cases added.
  • Support for some parallel environments added.
  • More portable line lookup code added.
  • Collective events added.
  • Misc bug fixes.
• Release 0.6 (2000-05-12)
  • Port to Linux/Alpha
  • vmon.out files not compatible with older releases
• Release 0.5 (2000-03-14)
  • Port of runtime and cprof to AIX/gcc
  • Port of runtime to IRIX/gcc
  • Update for PAPI snapshot
• Release 0.4 (1999-10-01)
  • Fix SEGV and corrupt vmon data at end of run.
  • Fix line numbering offset.
• Release 0.3
  • Add Perf API support.
• Release 0.2
  • Cleanup release.
• Release 0.1
  • Initial release.