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branch stacks and it will automatically switch to the branch view mode,
unless --no-branch-stack is used.
+--branch-history::
+ Add the addresses of sampled taken branches to the callstack.
+ This allows to examine the path the program took to each sample.
+ The data collection must have used -b (or -j) and -g.
+
--objdump=<path>::
Path to objdump binary.