https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101773
Martin Liška <marxin at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |WAITING --- Comment #5 from Martin Liška <marxin at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Vincent Lefèvre from comment #4) > GCOV_EXIT_AT_ERROR is not documented in the man page. But we document that in GCC user manual. > > Anyway, it doesn't seem to work: > > $ export GCOV_EXIT_AT_ERROR=1 > $ printenv GCOV_EXIT_AT_ERROR > 1 > $ gcc-test -O -fprofile-generate=dir tst.c > $ ./a.out > $ echo $? > 0 > $ ls -l dir/*.gcda > -rw-r--r-- 1 vlefevre vlefevre 0 2021-08-04 14:48:01 > dir/#home#vlefevre#a-tst.gcda It works for me: $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 12.0.0 20210804 (experimental) $ df -h /tmp/ramdisk Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 4.0K 4.0K 0 100% /tmp/ramdisk $ g++ ~/Programming/tramp3d/tramp3d-v4.ii -fprofile-generate=/tmp/ramdisk $ GCOV_EXIT_AT_ERROR=1 ./a.out -n 0 ... libgcov profiling error:/tmp/ramdisk/#home#marxin#Programming#testcases#a-tramp3d-v4.gcda:Error writing profiling:exiting after an error $ echo $? 1 $ ./a.out -n 0 ... libgcov profiling error:/tmp/ramdisk/#home#marxin#Programming#testcases#a-tramp3d-v4.gcda:Error writing echo $? 0