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From: Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com>
To: sid@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: SID support for gcov?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 05:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877juilhg3.fsf@au.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C4D803.1070800@redhat.com>

Hi Dave

> Can gcov be used with SID? From what I've read about gcov it doesn't
> seem like any special SID support would be necessary. It seems like
> all the needed support is done at compile time and by runtime code,
> however executing a simple program after compiling it with
> -dprofile-arcs and -ftest-coverage didn't produce any .da
> files. Perhaps the runtime code doesn't use any of the supported
> syscalls?

You're right--the instrumented code relies on runtime support on the
target for doing things like opening and writing the .da files on the
host.  Does your gloss/monitor support this?

My recollection is that I tested this a couple of years ago and it
worked (at least for the target I worked on).

Cheers, Ben

      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-08  5:57 UTC|newest]

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2004-06-07 21:04 Dave Brolley
2004-06-08  5:57 ` Ben Elliston [this message]

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