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| author | Doug Evans <dje@google.com> | 2011-11-04 16:45:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Doug Evans <dje@google.com> | 2011-11-04 16:45:13 +0000 |
| commit | 0a1c4d10f1054325af840fc780a121ed10d69e63 (patch) | |
| tree | 602d1865bff947c8f3abe515da26de01dda5be70 /gdb/doc | |
| parent | a1d705ee1b50481b05809413906cc5955f3b2730 (diff) | |
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* utils.c: #include "timeval-utils.h".
(cmd_stats): Rename start_time to start_cpu_time.
New member start_wall_time.
(report_command_stats): Report wall time.
(make_command_stats_cleanup): Record start wall time.
doc/
* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Update docs of "maint time".
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 15 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 9beca6f..2a23823 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2011-11-04 Doug Evans <dje@google.com> + + * gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Update docs of "maint time". + 2011-11-03 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> * gdb.texinfo (Stopping): Add menu entry. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 93450c6..520360f 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -32991,13 +32991,16 @@ switch (@pxref{Mode Options}). @kindex maint time @cindex time of command execution @item maint time -Control whether to display the execution time for each command. If -set to a nonzero value, @value{GDBN} will display how much time it +Control whether to display the execution time of @value{GDBN} for each command. +If set to a nonzero value, @value{GDBN} will display how much time it took to execute each command, following the command's own output. -The time is not printed for the commands that run the target, since -there's no mechanism currently to compute how much time was spend -by @value{GDBN} and how much time was spend by the program been debugged. -it's not possibly currently +Both CPU time and wallclock time are printed. +Printing both is useful when trying to determine whether the cost is +CPU or, e.g., disk/network, latency. +Note that the CPU time printed is for @value{GDBN} only, it does not include +the execution time of the inferior because there's no mechanism currently +to compute how much time was spent by @value{GDBN} and how much time was +spent by the program been debugged. This can also be requested by invoking @value{GDBN} with the @option{--statistics} command-line switch (@pxref{Mode Options}). |