valgrind, profiling timer expired?

Question

I try to profile a simple c prog using valgrind:

[zsun@nel6005001 ~]$ valgrind --tool=memcheck ./fl.out
==2238== Memcheck, a memory error dete

Answer 1

The problem is that you are using valgrind on a program compiled with -pg. You cannot use valgrind and gprof together. The valgrind manual suggests using OProfile if you are on Linux and need to profile the actual emulation of the program under valgrind.