Question

Which compiling option can be used for finding which part of the program is consuming most of the processing time?

(a) -f

(b) -g

(c) -p

(d) -c

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I need to ask this question from The Compilation Process-II topic in portion Writing Software for Embedded Systems of Embedded Systems

Answer 1

Right option is (c) -p

To elaborate: The -p instructs the compiler to produce codes which count the number of times each routine is called and this is useful for finding the processing time of the programs.