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After you have a profile data file gmon.out, you can run gprof
to interpret the information in it. The gprof program prints a
flat profile and a call graph on standard output. Typically you
would redirect the output of gprof into a file with `>'.  You
run gprof like this:   Here square-brackets indicate optional
arguments.  If you omit the executable file name, the file a.out
is used. If you give no profile data file name, the file
gmon.out is used. If any file is not in the proper format, or if
the profile data file does not appear to belong to the
executable file, an error message is printed.  You can give more
than one profile data file by entering all their names after the
executable file name; then the statistics in all the data files
are summed together.  The order of these options does not
matter.