Thanks again for the input. I swear I read that line,

> Lines starting with +, - and * mark entering and exit of subroutines by ids, and goto &subr.

five times and never got the fact that * == 'goto &subr'.

The fix you suggest does not work. It just mangles the file. Just changing * to + works more or less, but requires you to use -F and the timing data for the subs that call goto are messed up. A better fix would look something like this. Change

+ yy
& zz pkg subname
* zz
- zz
[download]

to

+ yy
- yy
& zz pkg subname
+ zz
- zz
[download]