[avr-gcc-list] Special Statistics-Measuring code?

[Bob Paddock]

Is it possible to do this with AVR-GCC?:

"The project team used a GNU-C compiler to build special  
statistics-measuring
code into the binary executables. A program built with profiling support
generates a gmon.out file that contains statistics it gathers while the  
program
is running. The gprof utility, which interprets the gmon.out file,  
generates
text files that indicate how many times a function executed and the overall
time spent in a function."

from:

"Architectural-design considerations for implementing hardware acceleration
Exploiting hybrid software/hardware parallelism in algorithm-hardware
accelerations can yield significant performance gains over a  
function-replacement approach."
By Ian Ferguson, QuickLogic -- EDN, 9/29/2005

http://www.edn.com/article/CA6258598.html?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=2551

There would be some obvious issues like where to build the 'gmon.out' file  
in AVR device
that would have to be worked out.