Programming Tools Guide
Chapter 9, C programmer's productivity tools

Running the profiled program

Running the profiled program

When you execute the program run-time data is stored in a data file whose name consists of the program name plus the extension .cnt. When the program ends, a message such as the following one is printed to stderr:

   dumping profiling data from process 'travel' . . .
           CNTFILE 'travel.cnt' created