+2019-03-06 Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz>
+
+ PR gcov-profile/89577
+ * doc/gcov.texi: Prefer to use --coverage.
+ * doc/sourcebuild.texi: Likewise.
+
2019-03-02 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
PR c++/86485 - -Wmaybe-unused with empty class ?:
conventionally be rounded to 0% or 100% are instead printed as the
nearest non-boundary value.
-When using @command{gcov}, you must first compile your program with two
-special GCC options: @samp{-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage}.
+When using @command{gcov}, you must first compile your program
+with a special GCC option @samp{--coverage}.
This tells the compiler to generate additional information needed by
gcov (basically a flow graph of the program) and also includes
additional code in the object files for generating the extra profiling
is what you see when you use the basic @command{gcov} facility:
@smallexample
-$ g++ -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage tmp.cpp
+$ g++ --coverage tmp.cpp
$ a.out
$ gcov tmp.cpp -m
File 'tmp.cpp'
@section Using @command{gcov} with GCC Optimization
If you plan to use @command{gcov} to help optimize your code, you must
-first compile your program with two special GCC options:
-@samp{-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage}. Aside from that, you can use any
+first compile your program with a special GCC option
+@samp{--coverage}. Aside from that, you can use any
other GCC options; but if you want to prove that every single line
in your program was executed, you should not compile with optimization
at the same time. On some machines the optimizer can eliminate some
@command{gcov} test contains the following DejaGnu commands within comments:
@smallexample
-@{ dg-options "-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage" @}
+@{ dg-options "--coverage" @}
@{ dg-do run @{ target native @} @}
@{ dg-final @{ run-gcov sourcefile @} @}
@end smallexample