SSDUMP(1)SSDUMP(1)


NAME
     ssdump - Prints contents of SpeedShop performance experiment data
     files

SYNOPSIS
     ssdump [-d] [-D] [-h] [-i index] [-q] [-s offset] files

IMPLEMENTATION
     IRIX systems

DESCRIPTION
     The ssdump utility is a verification tool that lets you view or print
     experiment files in ASCII format.  The SpeedShop experiment files are
     printed in binary format.  For example, if you question the accuracy
     of performance data displayed by cvperf(1) or prof(1), you can compare
     those results with the output from ssdump.

     Each file contains several experiment records printed in a binary
     count-key-data record format.

     The following ssdump command options control how the files are
     printed:

     -d        Prints detailed information for each record.  For compressed
               records, the compressed form is dumped.

     -D        Prints detailed information for each record.  For compressed
               records, the uncompressed form is dumped.  If both -D and -d
               are specified, both forms are printed for compressed
               records, but only one copy is printed for records that are
               not recorded in compressed form.

     -h        Prints the hexadecimal content of the body of each record.

     -q        Suppresses fields that typically change from run to run.
               Such fields contain, for example, process pids, time stamps,
               and so forth.  This option is used for QA work to better
               enable automatic comparisons of recorded experiments.

     -s offset Prints only one record at the specified offset into the
               file.

     -i index  Prints only one record at the specified index in the file.

     files     One or more SpeedShop performance data files.  If more than
               one file is specified, use a space to separate the file
               names.

SEE ALSO
     speedshop(1)