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Chapter 31. MSP 430 Dependent Features

We define new section

.profiler

which holds all profiling information. We define new pseudo

operation

.profiler

which will instruct assembler to add new profile entry to the object file. Profile

should take place at the present address.

Pseudo operation format:

.profiler flags,function_to_profile [, cycle_corrector, extra]

where:

flags

is a combination of the following characters:

s

function entry

x

function exit

i

function is in init section

f

function is in fini section

l

library call

c

libc standard call

d

stack value demand

I

interrupt service routine

P

prologue start

p

prologue end

E

epilogue start

e

epilogue end

j

long jump / sjlj unwind

a

an arbitrary code fragment