Profile single function in gprof

Question

Is it possible to use gprof to line-profile a single function in C++?

Something like:

gprof -l -F function_name ...

, which does not seem to work.

Answer 1

That can be done easily with valgrind. It is a wonderful tool if you have the chance to use it in your development environment. It even have and graphical interface kcachegrind.