On 10/11/05, Astroman (sent by Nabble.com) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am working on a piece of software that never exits and I am trying to use
> -fprofile-arcs and gcov to gather coverage data on it.
> The code looks like this:
> int main(){
> while(1){
> foo();
> nanosleep(50);
> }
> }
> This is a child process that as you can see will never exit on its own so
> eventually it is just signal killed by the parent process. This code could
> be changed to exit properly but that is not an option in this case. I am
> compiling the code with -fprofile-arcs and -ftest-coverage and I am able to
> obtain accurate coverage data for all the files in the project that exit
> normally. Is there any way to collect the .da file data before exit? Is it
> temporarily stored anywhere or could I alter the gcc library to store this
> information more often?
Make it SIGTERM, add a signal handler and do proper sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to
jump to a clean exit point. The output should be worth the extra 10
lines of code.
Richard.
