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| author | Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@digia.com> | 2012-09-18 16:29:33 +0200 |
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| committer | hjk <qthjk@ovi.com> | 2012-09-18 16:41:03 +0200 |
| commit | 069b5a536d11a434e0a594bed9f544c8a1cc063f (patch) | |
| tree | 6a533739e14bdfe8b20d36fc071787474e02bcaa /doc | |
| parent | 25bb6712c61b1669e6f92f6ecc056773675da68f (diff) | |
Doc: memcheck requires a debug build
Make terminology more consistent and add link to glossary
Change-Id: I46bbba560e14a917857cd89691986019d90b1550
Reviewed-by: hjk <qthjk@ovi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/analyze/creator-valgrind.qdoc | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/analyze/creator-valgrind.qdoc b/doc/src/analyze/creator-valgrind.qdoc index 6ec02400da..5edf7b3bdc 100644 --- a/doc/src/analyze/creator-valgrind.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/analyze/creator-valgrind.qdoc @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ \list 1 - \o In the \gui Projects mode, select a release build configuration. + \o In the \gui Projects mode, select a debug build configuration. \o Select \gui Analyze to open the \gui Analyze mode. @@ -166,12 +166,13 @@ the \gui Callers view and about the called functions in the \gui Callees view. - Since Debug and Release mode run-time characteristics differ - significantly, analytical findings for one mode may or not be - relevant for the other. Profiling a Debug mode build + Since the run-time characteristics of debug and release + \l{glossary-build-config}{build configurations} + differ significantly, analytical findings for one build configuration may or + not be relevant for the other. Profiling a debug build often finds a major part of the time being spent in low-level code like container implementations, while the same code - does not show up in the profile of a Release build of the + does not show up in the profile of a release build of the same application due to inlining and other optimizations typically done there. |