On Thu, May 24, 2018, 8:04 AM Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:28 AM, Sebastian Huber
> <sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> > On 23/05/18 01:06, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >>
> >> Or we may need to limit ourselves to source line mapping on a per
> >> executable
> >> basis. And generate reports using gcov output if we see methods change
> >> between executables. I have shied away from gcov as the primary format
> >> because I don't see how to do subexpression analysis.
> >>
> >>   if (a == 0 || b == 1)
> >>
> >> That's one line of source but two sub-expressions. Unless it's changed
> >> recently, the debug info is not at a level of granularity to generate
> >> gcov data that can tell we always too the first sub-expression.
> >>
> >> I'm not arguing -- just saying that doing the analysis at the asm level
> >> gives us branch information I don't think we get via source line
> >> analysis and gcov.
> >
> >
> > Is the --all-blocks option of gcov helpful here?
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Invoking-Gcov.html#Invoking-Gcov
> >
>
> Yes, that seems like it should work to me.
>

Can you decipher the gcov output to see if it is working?

>
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