Ping...

I attached a rebased patch file, with the doc changes and
merge conflicts with trunk of today fixed, but otherwise
identical.


Thanks
Bernd.

On 04/21/17 22:26, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>
>
> 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.