gprof — Performance analysis tool for many programming languages. It profiles the function executions of a p

Compile binary to default `a.out` with gprof information and run it to get `gmon.out`

gcc {{[-p|-pg]}} {{program.c}} && ./a.out

Run gprof on default `a.out` and `gmon.out` to obtain profile output

gprof

Run gprof on a named binary

gprof {{path/to/binary}} {{path/to/gmon.out}}

Suppress profile field's description

gprof {{[-b|--brief]}}

Display routines that have zero usage

gprof {{[-bz|--brief --display-unused-functions]}}