> BTW, I've just used the file `bash.1' version 2.05 from the linuxjm > project (with 217kByte it is about 30 times larger than `gprof.1'), > and profiling shows a completely different hot spot: [...]
In case you want to reproduce, here the corresponding command line options. Note that I've simply executed `./configure', then manually added `-pg' to CCFLAGS, CFLAGS, and LDFLAGS in the Makefile, followed by `make'. for English bash.1: troff -Tutf8 -ww -man bash.1 > /dev/null for Japanese bash.1: preconv -eeuc-japan bash.1 > bash.preconv.1 troff -Tutf8 -ww -man -mja bash.preconv.1 > /dev/null Werner