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Re: Shark time profile finds no symbols



Which sounds like you're in a driver without symbols, or some module (DLL or
library) that was compiled without symbols.

Chris



On 1/17/08 4:41 PM, "James Walker" <email@hidden> wrote:

> James Walker wrote:
>> When time profiling a certain app with Shark 4.5 and OS 10.4.11 on a
>> MacBook Pro, the profile shows only 4 numerical addresses, plus
>> io_alltraps in the kernel.  The numerical addresses show a hint saying
>> that "Shark was unable to find symbol information for this address
>> range.  Typically this happens because the application was compiled
>> without symbols or they have been stripped away..."  But there
>> definitely are debug symbols; this debug build is 3 times the size of
>> the release build.   I had originally tried DWARF, but switched to
>> STABS.  I might have some frameworks without symbols, but still I should
>> see the top level symbols, like say "main", right?
>> 
>> This machine does not have Xcode installed on it, just CHUD, is that a
>> problem?
> 
> To follow up on my question, if I profile a more normal operation of the
> app, the app symbols do show up.  It's only when I attempt to profile
> this particular hang (apparently in OpenGL) that I see no app symbols.
> 
> And to answer my second question, I installed Xcode 2.5 and reinstalled
> CHUD 4.5, and there was no improvement.

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