Edit Debugging/TickyTicky

debugging/ticky-ticky.md

@@ -97,7 +97,15 @@ Two flags enable LNE and dynamically allocated thunks to be tracked by name-spec
 ## Generating the ticky report
 
 
-Any GHC executable linked with `-rtsopts` will generate a ticky-ticky profiling report if provided the `-r` RTS option. This report includes all global counters as well as the name-specific counters for those names with at least one interesting counter value. If a named thing was never allocated and (hence) never entered, its counters will not be in the ticky report.
+Any GHC executable linked with `-rtsopts` will generate a ticky-ticky profiling report if provided the `-r` RTS option.  Thus
+
+```wiki
+$ ghc -ticky -rtsopts Main.hs -o main
+$ ./main +RTS -rmain.ticky
+```
+
+
+This report includes all global counters as well as the name-specific counters for those names with at least one interesting counter value. If a named thing was never allocated and (hence) never entered, its counters will not be in the ticky report.
 
 
 Below is an excerpt from a ticky report. The executable was compiled with all of the extensions above.

debugging/ticky-ticky.trac

@@ -73,7 +73,12 @@ Two flags enable LNE and dynamically allocated thunks to be tracked by name-spec
 
 == Generating the ticky report ==
 
-Any GHC executable linked with `-rtsopts` will generate a ticky-ticky profiling report if provided the `-r` RTS option. This report includes all global counters as well as the name-specific counters for those names with at least one interesting counter value. If a named thing was never allocated and (hence) never entered, its counters will not be in the ticky report.
+Any GHC executable linked with `-rtsopts` will generate a ticky-ticky profiling report if provided the `-r` RTS option.  Thus
+{{{
+$ ghc -ticky -rtsopts Main.hs -o main
+$ ./main +RTS -rmain.ticky
+}}}
+This report includes all global counters as well as the name-specific counters for those names with at least one interesting counter value. If a named thing was never allocated and (hence) never entered, its counters will not be in the ticky report.
 
 Below is an excerpt from a ticky report. The executable was compiled with all of the extensions above.