[PING**3] [PATCH] Force use of absolute path names for gcov

[Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>]

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On 05/12/17 18:47, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
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> On 04/28/17 19:41, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
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>> I attached a rebased patch file, with the doc changes and
>> merge conflicts with trunk of today fixed, but otherwise
>> identical.
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>>
>> Thanks
>> Bernd.
>>
>> On 04/21/17 22:26, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
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>>> On 04/21/17 21:50, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So I would like to add a -fprofile-abs-path option that
>>>>> forces absolute path names in gcno files, which allows gcov
>>>>> to get the true canonicalized source name.
>>>>
>>>> I don't see any actual documentation of this option in the patch (you
>>>> add
>>>> it to the summary list of options, and mention it in text under the
>>>> documentation of --coverage, but don't have any actual @item
>>>> -fprofile-abs-path / @opindex fprofile-abs-path paragraph with text
>>>> describing what the option does).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah yes, thanks.
>>>
>>> So I'll add one more sentence to invoke.texi:
>>>
>>> @@ -10696,6 +10713,12 @@
>>>  generate test coverage data.  Coverage data matches the source files
>>>  more closely if you do not optimize.
>>>
>>> +@item -fprofile-abs-path
>>> +@opindex fprofile-abs-path
>>> +Automatically convert relative source file names to absolute path names
>>> +in the @file{.gcno} files.  This allows @command{gcov} to find the
>>> correct
>>> +sources in projects with multiple directories.
>>> +
>>>  @item -fprofile-dir=@var{path}
>>>  @opindex fprofile-dir
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bernd.