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<h2 class="chapter">9 Details of Profiling</h2>
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Implementation.html#Implementation">Implementation</a>: How a program collects profiling information
<li><a accesskey="2" href="File-Format.html#File-Format">File Format</a>: Format of ‘<samp><span class="samp">gmon.out</span></samp>’ files
<li><a accesskey="3" href="Internals.html#Internals">Internals</a>: <code>gprof</code>'s internal operation
<li><a accesskey="4" href="Debugging.html#Debugging">Debugging</a>: Using <code>gprof</code>'s ‘<samp><span class="samp">-d</span></samp>’ option
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