Any way to specify the location of profile data

Question

The default the profile file is from the executable is run and the file is called gmon.out. Is there any way to specify a new location?

I\'m using gcc 3

Answer 1

To give a different file name to gprof:

gprof a.out gprof-foo.out

As to renaming them, set the GMON_OUT_PREFIX environment variable. I found this one by good ol' objdump on libc .... Naturally, the libc docs say nothing.