GCov tests with gcc 4.x

• 08 September 2006
• gnome

Thanks to Thomas for giving me this clue to get coverage reports with code compiled with gcc 4.x.

In order to get coverage logs, CFLAGS should include -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage (and preferrable to get also -O0). It’s what the gcc manual says. It was enough for gcc 3.x. But in gcc 4.x it may not. When you link, you can get this error:

hidden symbol `__gcov_init' in /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/libgcov.a(_gcov.o) is referenced by DSO

The problem seems to be caused by the linker. In theory, adding -ftest-coverage should imply linking gcov automatically. But it’s not true, at least in my case. The solution: adding -lgcov to the LDFLAGS. Finally I have coverage reports for my gcc 4.1.2 compiler.

CFLAGS=-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
LDFLAGS=-lgcov

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